3 ¹ You must face the fact: the final age of this world is to be a time of troubles. 3 ² Men will love nothing but money and self; they will be arrogant, boastful, and abusive; with no respect for parents, no gratitude, no piety, no natural affection; 3 ³ they will be implacable in their hatreds, scandal-mongers, intemperate and fierce, strangers to all goodness, 3 ⁴ traitors, adventurers, swollen with self-importance. They will be men who put pleasure in the place of God, 3 ⁵ men who preserve the outward form of religion, but are a standing denial of its reality. Keep clear of men like these. 3 ⁶ They are the sort that insinuate themselves into private houses and there get miserable women into their clutches, women burdened with a sinful past, and led on by all kinds of desires, 3 ⁷ who are always wanting to be taught, but are incapable of reaching a knowledge of the truth. 3 ⁸ As Jannes and Jambres defied Moses, so these men defy the truth; they have lost the power to reason, and they cannot pass the tests of faith. 3 ⁹ But their successes will be short-lived, for, like those opponents of Moses, they will come to be recognized by everyone for the fools they are.