3:1你該知道、末世必有危險的日子來到。
3:2因為那時人要專顧自己、貪愛錢財、自誇、狂傲、謗讟、違背父母、忘恩負義、心不聖潔、
3:3無親情、不解怨、好說讒言、不能自約、性情兇暴、不愛良善、
3:4賣主賣友、任意妄為、自高自大、愛宴樂不愛 神．
3:5有敬虔的外貌、卻背了敬虔的實意．這等人你要躲開。
3:6那偷進人家、牢籠無知婦女的、正是這等人．這些婦女擔負罪惡、被各樣的私慾引誘．
3:7常常學習、終久不能明白真道。
3:8從前雅尼和佯庇怎樣敵擋摩西、這等人也怎樣敵擋真道．他們的心地壞了、在真道上是可廢棄的。
3:9然而他們不能再這樣敵擋、因為他們的愚昧、必在眾人面前顯露出來、像那二人一樣。
3:10但你已經服從了我的教訓、品行、志向、信心、寬容、愛心、忍耐、
3:11以及我在安提阿、以哥念、路司得、所遭遇的逼迫、苦難．我所忍受是何等的逼迫．但從這一切苦難中、主都把我救出來了。
3:12不但如此、凡立志在基督耶穌裏敬虔度日的、也都要受逼迫。
3:13只是作惡的、和迷惑人的、必越久越惡、他欺哄人也被人欺哄。
3:14但你所學習的、所確信的、要存在心裏．因為你知道是跟誰學的．
3:15並且知道你是從小明白聖經．這聖經能使你因信基督耶穌有得救的智慧。
3:16聖經都是 神所默示的、〔或作凡 神所默示的聖經〕於教訓、督責、使人歸正、教導人學義、都是有益的．
3:17叫屬 神的人得以完全、豫備行各樣的善事。
4:1我在 神面前、並在將來審判活人死人的基督耶穌面前、憑着他的顯現和他的國度囑咐你．
4:2務要傳道．無論得時不得時、總要專心、並用百般的忍耐、各樣的教訓、責備人、警戒人、勸勉人。
4:3因為時候要到、人必厭煩純正的道理．耳朵發癢、就隨從自己的情慾、增添好些師傅．
4:4並且掩耳不聽真道、偏向荒渺的言語。
4:5你卻要凡事謹慎、忍受苦難、作傳道的工夫、盡你的職分。
Chapter 3
3:1But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
3:2People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3:3without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
3:4treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—
3:5having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.
3:6They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires,
3:7always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.
3:8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth--men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.
3:9But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.
3:10You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,
11persecutions, sufferings--what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
3:12In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
3:13while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
3:14But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,
3:15and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
3:16All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
3:17so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Chapter 4
4:1In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge:
4:2Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction.
4:3For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
4:4They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.