Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, being devoted to corrupting spirits and doctrines of demons,

speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared,

But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:

Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have risen up, by which we know that it is the last hour.

how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts.

How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity; and those who scorn desire their scorning; and fools hate knowledge?

Surely He scorns the scorners, but He gives grace to the lowly.

A scorner seeks wisdom, and does not find it; but knowledge is easy to him who understands.

who say, Let Him hurry and hasten His work, so that we may see it; and let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, so that we may know it!

Therefore hear the Word of Jehovah, you scornful men who rule this people in Jerusalem.

For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scorner is destroyed, and all who look after iniquity are cut off;

In the day of our king, the rulers have made themselves sick, inflamed with wine. He stretches out his hand with scorners.

and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the Word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience before God.

These are murmurers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and their mouths speak great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage.

how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts.