II Timothy 3: 1-8
Bernard Pyron

II Timothy 3:1-8 says "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy ,Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,.Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.. Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith."

 II Timothy 3; 1-8 could be seen to  predict the personality traits of people in the Counterculture and then the Me Generation of the sixties and seventies. But Paul is also predicting that the church will depart from sound doctrine, into man-made false theologies.

When he mentions having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth, and resisting the truth he is talking about the church.

"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." II Timothy 4: 3.

"Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it?
19.It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.
20.And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?
21.It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened."
Luke 13:18-21

The word "till" indicates that this leavening happens over a period of time. The parable of the leaven is also found in Matthew 13: 33, though it is has not been fully understood to refer to the apostasy of the church.

The leaven which causes the falling away from sound doctrine in the churches is brought in by the huge number of false prophets seen, for example, in Matthew 24:11.  The leavening goes on over time until the whole is leavened as Luke 13: 21 says. A little leaven eventually leavens the entire church. "A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump." Galatians 5: 9.