7. women who are always trying to learn but who can never come to know the truth.
8. As Jannes and Jambres were opposed to Moses, so also these people are opposed to the truth — people whose minds do not function and who are failures in the faith.
9. But they will not get very far, because everyone will see how stupid they are. That is just what happened to Jannes and Jambres.
10. But you have followed my teaching, my conduct, and my purpose in life; you have observed my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,
11. my persecutions, and my sufferings. You know all that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra, the terrible persecutions I endured! But the Lord rescued me from them all.
12. Everyone who wants to live a godly life in union with Christ Jesus will be persecuted;
13. and evil persons and impostors will keep on going from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.