II Timothy 3:3
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unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good,
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when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”
They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
In the latter part of their reign, when the rebellion has reached its full measure, an insolent king, skilled in intrigue, will come to the throne.
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.
Whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me; and whoever rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”
But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, as they deserve.”