1. But know this, that in the last days difficult times will come,
2. for people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3. hardhearted, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, with no interest for what is good,
4. traitors, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God,
5. maintaining a form of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid these people.
6. For from these are those who slip into houses and captivate foolish women loaded down with sins, led by various kinds of desires,