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# 2 Timothy 3

2 Timothy 3 is chapter 3 of 4 in the Second Letter to Timothy. Here are all 17 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The character of heretics of latter days. He exhorts Timothy to constancy. Of the great profit of the knowledge of the scriptures.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## 2 Timothy 3 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And know this: that in the last days perilous times will press near.
2. Men will be lovers of themselves, greedy, self-exalting, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked,
3. without affection, without peace, false accusers, unchaste, cruel, without kindness,
4. traitorous, reckless, self-important, loving pleasure more than God,
5. even having the appearance of piety while rejecting its virtue. And so, avoid them.
6. For among these are ones who penetrate houses and lead away, like captives, foolish women burdened with sins, who are led away by means of various desires,
7. always learning, yet never achieving knowledge of the truth.
8. And in the same manner that Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so also will these resist the truth, men corrupted in mind, reprobates from the faith.
9. But they will not advance beyond a certain point. For the folly of the latter shall be made manifest to all, just as that of the former.
10. But you have fully comprehended my doctrine, instruction, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,
11. persecutions, afflictions; such things as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra; how I endured persecutions, and how the Lord rescued me from everything.
12. And all those who willingly live the piety in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
13. But evil men and deceivers will advance in evil, erring and sending into error.
14. Yet truly, you should remain in those things which you have learned and which have been entrusted to you. For you know from whom you have learned them.
15. And, from your infancy, you have known the Sacred Scriptures, which are able to instruct you toward salvation, through the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16. All Scripture, having been divinely inspired, is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in justice,
17. so that the man of God may be perfect, having been trained for every good work.

## 2 Timothy 3 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Hoc autem scito, quod in novissimis diebus instabunt tempora periculosa:
2. erunt homines seipsos amantes, cupidi, elati, superbi, blasphemi, parentibus non obedientes, ingrati, scelesti,
3. sine affectione, sine pace, criminatores, incontinentes, immites, sine benignitate,
4. proditores, protervi, tumidi, et voluptatum amatores magis quam Dei:
5. habentes speciem quidem pietatis, virtutem autem ejus abnegantes. Et hos devita:
6. ex his enim sunt qui penetrant domos, et captivas ducunt mulierculas oneratas peccatis, quæ ducuntur variis desideriis:
7. semper discentes, et numquam ad scientiam veritatis pervenientes.
8. Quemadmodum autem Jannes et Mambres restiterunt Moysi: ita et hi resistunt veritati, homines corrupti mente, reprobi circa fidem;
9. sed ultra non proficient: insipientia enim eorum manifesta erit omnibus, sicut et illorum fuit.
10. Tu autem assecutus es meam doctrinam, institutionem, propositum, fidem, longanimitatem, dilectionem, patientiam,
11. persecutiones, passiones: qualia mihi facta sunt Antiochiæ, Iconii, et Lystris: quales persecutiones sustinui, et ex omnibus eripuit me Dominus.
12. Et omnes, qui pie volunt vivere in Christo Jesu, persecutionem patientur.
13. Mali autem homines et seductores proficient in pejus, errantes, et in errorem mittentes.
14. Tu vero permane in iis quæ didicisti, et credita sunt tibi: sciens a quo didiceris:
15. et quia ab infantia sacras litteras nosti, quæ te possunt instruere ad salutem, per fidem quæ est in Christo Jesu.
16. Omnis Scriptura divinitus inspirata utilis est ad docendum, ad arguendum, ad corripiendum, et erudiendum in justitia:
17. ut perfectus sit homo Dei, ad omne opus bonum instructus.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 1794: Erroneous Judgment ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2847: "And Lead Us not into Temptation" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 105: Inspiration and Truth of Sacred Scripture ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “Ignorance of the Scriptures is a great cliff and a deep abyss.” — St. John Chrysostom, Homily on Genesis, 2, c. 388 (On this theme: verse 16)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 8: The magicians of king Pharao.
- Verse 16: “All scripture,” … Every part of divine scripture is certainly profitable for all these ends. But, if we would have the whole rule of Christian faith and practice, we must not be content with those Scriptures, which Timothy knew from his infancy, that is, with the Old Testament alone: nor yet with the New Testament, without taking along with it the traditions of the apostles, and the interpretation of the church, to which the apostles delivered both the book, and the true meaning of it.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Fri, Jun 9, 2028 (computed): Friday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, 2 Timothy 3:10-17
- Sun, Oct 22, 2028 (computed): Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time — Second Reading, 2 Timothy 3:14-4:2

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).