📖WEB · 2 Timothy 3:13

What does 2 Timothy 3:13 mean?

"But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived."

— 2 Timothy 3:13 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

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persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

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Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

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But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

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But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

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From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

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Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

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