1. But understand this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2. For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3. unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good,
4. treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God.
5. They will maintain the outward appearance of religion but will have repudiated its power. So avoid people like these.
6. For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.