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- This knowe also, that in the last dayes, perylous tymes shalbe at hande.
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- For men shalbe louers of their owne selues, couetous, boasters, proude, blasphemers, disobedient to fathers and mothers, vnthankefull, vngodlye:
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- Without naturall affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, riotous, fierce, despisers of them which are good,
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- Traytours, headdy, hye mynded, louers of pleasures more then louers of God:
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- Hauyng a fourme of godlynesse, but denying the power therof: turne away from these.
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- These are they, which enter into houses, & leade captiue [simple] women laden with sinne, caryed with diuers lustes:
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- Euer learnyng, and neuer able to come vnto the knowledge of the trueth.
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- For as Iannes and Iambres withstoode Moyses, so do these also resist the trueth: Men of corrupt myndes, reprobate concernyng the fayth:
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- But they shall preuayle no longer.
For their madnesse shalbe manifest vnto all [men] as also theirs was.
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- But thou hast folowed my doctrine, fashion of lyuyng, purpose, fayth, long sufferyng, loue, patience,
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- Persecutions, afflictions, which came vnto me at Antioche, at Iconium, at Lystra, which persecutions I suffred patiently: And from them all, the Lord deliuered me.
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- Yea, and all that wyll lyue godly in Christe Iesus, shall suffer persecution.
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- But the euyll men and deceauers, shall waxe worse and worse, deceauyng and deceaued.
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- But continue thou in the thynges which thou haste learned, which also were committed vnto thee, knowyng of whom thou hast learned [them]:
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- And that from an infant thou hast knowen the scriptures, which are able to make thee wyse vnto saluation, thorowe fayth which is in Christe Iesus.
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- All scripture is geuen by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable to doctrine, to reproue, to correction, to instruction which is in ryghteousnesse,
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- That the man of God may be perfect, instructed vnto all good workes.
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