2 Timothy 3:7

American Standard Version (1901)

ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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  • Isa 30:10-11 : 10 that say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits, 11 get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
  • 2 Tim 2:25 : 25 in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth,
  • 2 Tim 4:3-4 : 3 For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts; 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables.
  • Heb 5:11 : 11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing.
  • 1 Cor 3:1-4 : 1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able [to bear it] : nay, not even now are ye able; 3 for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men? 4 For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not men?
  • 1 Tim 2:4 : 4 who would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.
  • Deut 29:4 : 4 but Jehovah hath not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
  • Prov 14:6 : 6 A scoffer seeketh wisdom, and [findeth it] not; But knowledge is easy unto him that hath understanding.
  • Matt 13:11 : 11 And he answered and said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
  • John 5:44 : 44 How can ye believe, who receive glory one of another, and the glory that [cometh] from the only God ye seek not?
  • John 12:42-43 : 42 Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess [it], lest they should be put out of the synagogue: 43 for they loved the glory [that is] of men more than the glory [that is] of God.
  • John 3:20-21 : 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, that they have been wrought in God.
  • Ezek 14:4-9 : 4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Every man of the house of Israel that taketh his idols into his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I Jehovah will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols; 5 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols. 6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Return ye, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations. 7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that separateth himself from me, and taketh his idols into his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Jehovah will answer him by myself: 8 and I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah. 9 And if the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, Jehovah, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. 10 And they shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet shall be even as the iniquity of him that seeketh [unto him] ;
  • Eph 4:14 : 14 that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

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    8And even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth. Men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

    9But they shall proceed no further. For their folly shall be evident unto all men, as theirs also came to be.

  • 2 Tim 3:4-6
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    4traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

    5holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof: from these also turn away.

    6For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,

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    6from which things some having swerved have turned aside unto vain talking;

    7desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.

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    13But evil men and impostors shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

    14But abide thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them.

    15And that from a babe thou hast known the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

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    19and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,

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    3For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts;

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    17Ye therefore, beloved, knowing [these things] beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness.

    18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him [be] the glory both now and for ever. Amen.

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    14not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

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    14that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

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    11knowing that such a one is perverted, and sinneth, being self-condemned.

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    10For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision,

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    17And the way of peace have they not known:

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    6not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

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    3For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.