Passage
Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
2 Timothy 3:12 (LSB)
Nearby Context
2 Timothy 3:10 But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,
2 Timothy 3:11 persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra. What persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me!
2 Timothy 3:12 Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
2 Timothy 3:14 But you, continue in the things you learned and became convinced of, knowing from whom you learned them,
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "indeed", "desire", "live", "godly", "christ", "jesus", and "persecuted". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "indeed" and "desire", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The nearby context moves from verse 11's "persecutions and sufferings such as happened to..." into verse 13's "But evil men and impostors will proceed...", so "indeed" and "desire" belong inside that flow. In 2 Timothy context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "indeed" and "desire" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.