1 You must realize, however, that in the last days difficult times will come.

2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

3 unfeeling, uncooperative, slanderous, degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good,

4 traitors, reckless, conceited, and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.

5 They will hold to an outward form of godliness but deny its power. Stay away from such people.