3:1 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress. 3:2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3:3 inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good, 3:4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 3:5 holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people. 3:6 For among them are those who make their way into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and swayed by various impulses,