1. But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.
2. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3. without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
4. traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
5. holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
6. For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,