1This then know: that harsh times will be present in the last days.2For humans will be selfish, money-loving, braggarts, arrogant, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, and unholy.3They will be unfeeling, irreconcilable, devilish, intemperate, brutal, and hating good.4They will be traitors, reckless, puffed up, pleasure-loving rather than God-loving.5They have a form of piety but have denied its power; turn away from these.6For out from these are the ones who sneak into homes and capture weak-willed women who have been piled up with sins and are led by various desires.7They are always learning and never able to come to knowledge of the truth.8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these oppose the truth—humans whose minds have been depraved and who fail concerning the faith.9But they will not advance much further, for their folly will be clearly evident to all, just as the folly of those became.