2 Timothy 3

3 ¹But make you understand dis one: for di last days, hard-hard time go come. ²Because people go dey love only demsef, dey love money, dey blow demsef, dey do proud, dey talk bad-bad tin, no dey obey papa-and-mama, no dey show tank-you, no dey holy. ³Dem no get mind for anybody, dem no dey forgive, dem dey carry rumor, dem no fit hold demsef, dem dey do wickedness, dem hate wetin good, ⁴dem dey betray person, dem no dey tink before dem do, pride don swell dem head, dem love sweet-sweet enjoyment pass as dem suppose love our Papa. ⁵Dem dey carry di outside-shape of worship to God, but dem don deny di power wey dey inside am—make you comot for dem. ⁶Because na for inside dis kind people, some dey sneak enter house, dey trap weak women wey sin don load for dem back, and different-different bad desire dey pull dem. ⁷Dem dey learn learn every time, but dem never fit reach di place wey dem go sabi di truth. ⁸Just as Jannes and Jambres stand against Moses, na so dis people too dey stand against di truth—dem mind don spoil, and for di faith side, dem no pass di test. ^a a v8 Jannes and Jambres na di names wey Jewish tradition dey call di Egypt magician-people wey stand against Moses (look Exodus 7–8). ⁹But dem no go go far, because everybody go see dia foolishness clear-clear, just as e happen to dat two men.

Continue for inside di Papa im Word

¹⁰But you, you don follow my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, and how I dey endure, ¹¹you don see di suffer-suffer and di trouble wey dem give me—for Antioch, for Iconium, for Lystra, wetin a kind persecution I endure! But Oga rescue me comot for all of dem. ¹²For true, everybody wey wan live godly life for inside Christ Jesus, dem go suffer persecution, ¹³while wicked people and pretenders go dey worse-worse as time dey go, dey deceive people and dey deceive demsef too. ¹⁴But you—make you stay for wetin you learn and wey you don sure of, as you sabi di people wey teach am you, ¹⁵and how, from wen you be small pikin, you don sabi di holy writing wey fit make you wise reach salvation, through faith wey dey inside Christ Jesus. ¹⁶All Scripture na our Papa breathe am comot—e dey useful to teach person, to show wetin wrong, to correct, and to train person for correct-and-holy way of living, ^b b v16 Scripture na di breath of our Papa imsef—no be some order wey far-far deity give, but di living word of di Papa wey dey talk to im pikin dem. ¹⁷so dat di person wey belong to our Papa go complete, and dem go ready am well-well for every good work.