People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,(A) boastful, proud,(B) abusive,(C) disobedient to their parents,(D) ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous,(E) rash, conceited,(F) lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness(G) but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.(H)

They are the kind who worm their way(I) into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.(J) Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses,(K) so also these teachers oppose(L) the truth. They are men of depraved minds,(M) who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.

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13 while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse,(A) deceiving and being deceived.(B)

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