2 Peter 2:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it.

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  • Ezek 18:24 : 24 But when the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, like all the disgusting things which the evil man does, will he have life? Not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory: in the wrong which he has done and in his sin death will overtake him.
  • Luke 12:47 : 47 And the servant who had knowledge of his lord's desires and was not ready for him and did not do as he was ordered, will be given a great number of blows;
  • Heb 6:4-6 : 4 As for those who at one time saw the light, tasting the good things from heaven, and having their part in the Holy Spirit, 5 With knowledge of the good word of God, and of the powers of the coming time, 6 And then let themselves be turned away, it is not possible for their hearts to be made new a second time; because they themselves put the Son of God on the cross again, openly shaming him.
  • Jas 4:17 : 17 The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
  • Ezek 3:20 : 20 Again, when an upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, and I put a cause of falling in his way, death will overtake him: because you have given him no word of his danger, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, and there will be no memory of the upright acts which he has done; but I will make you responsible for his blood.
  • John 9:41 : 41 Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would have no sin: but now that you say, We see; your sin is there still.
  • John 15:22 : 22 If I had not come and been their teacher they would have had no sin: but now they have no reason to give for their sin.
  • Zeph 1:6 : 6 And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.
  • Rom 7:12 : 12 But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.
  • 1 Thess 4:2 : 2 Because you have in mind the orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
  • Matt 11:23-24 : 23 And you, Capernaum, were you not to be lifted up to heaven? you will go down into hell: for if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have been here to this day. 24 But I say to you that it will be better for the land of Sodom in the day of judging, than for you.
  • Matt 21:32 : 32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you had no faith in him, but the tax-farmers and the loose women had faith in him: and you, when you saw it, did not even have regret for your sins, so as to have faith in him.
  • Ezek 23:13 : 13 And I saw that she had become unclean; the two of them went the same way.
  • Ps 36:3-4 : 3 In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good. 4 He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.
  • Ps 125:5 : 5 But as for such as are turned out of the straight way, the Lord will take them away with the workers of evil. Let peace be on Israel.
  • Prov 12:28 : 28 In the road of righteousness is life, but the way of the evil-doer goes to death.
  • Prov 16:31 : 31 The grey head is a crown of glory, if it is seen in the way of righteousness.

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  • 2 Pet 2:18-20
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    18 For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

    19 Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.

    20 For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.

  • 2 Pet 2:22
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    22 They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.

  • Job 34:27
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    27 Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,

  • Titus 1:16
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    16 They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.

  • Heb 6:6
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    6 And then let themselves be turned away, it is not possible for their hearts to be made new a second time; because they themselves put the Son of God on the cross again, openly shaming him.

  • 2 Pet 2:14-15
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    14 Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;

    15 Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;

  • Gal 4:9
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    9 But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

  • Jas 4:17
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    17 The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

  • Prov 2:13
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    13 Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;

  • 2 Pet 3:17
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    17 For this reason, my loved ones, having knowledge of these things before they take place, take care that you are not turned away by the error of the uncontrolled, so falling from your true faith.

  • Jude 1:10-11
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    10 But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.

    11 A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah.

  • 1 Tim 1:6
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    6 From which some have been turned away, giving themselves to foolish talking;

  • 1 Tim 5:12
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    12 And they are judged because they have been false to their first faith;

  • 2 Tim 3:7
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    7 Ever learning, and never coming to the knowledge of what is true.

  • Heb 10:26
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    26 For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins,

  • 2 Pet 2:2
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    2 And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.

  • Rom 1:28
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    28 And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

  • 2 Tim 3:9
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    9 But they will go no farther: for their foolish behaviour will be clear to all men, as theirs was in the end.

  • Luke 17:2
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    2 It would be well for him if a great stone was put round his neck and he was dropped into the sea, before he made trouble for any of these little ones.

  • Prov 1:32
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    32 For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction.

  • 2 Tim 3:5
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    5 Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.

  • Titus 3:11
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    11 Clearly he is in error and a sinner, being self-judged.

  • Heb 6:4
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    4 As for those who at one time saw the light, tasting the good things from heaven, and having their part in the Holy Spirit,

  • 2 Thess 2:12
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    12 So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.

  • 1 Sam 12:21
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    21 And do not go from the right way turning to those false gods in which there is no profit and no salvation, for they are false.

  • Ezek 33:18
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    18 When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him in it.

  • Rom 1:21-22
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    21 Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.

    22 Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,

  • Eph 4:19
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    19 Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.

  • Prov 1:29
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    29 For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:

  • Jude 1:4-5
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    4 For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

    5 Now it is my purpose to put you in mind, though you once had knowledge of all these things, of how the Lord, having taken a people safely out of Egypt, later sent destruction on those who had no faith;

  • Zeph 1:6
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    6 And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.

  • Prov 26:11
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    11 Like a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down, is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again.

  • Prov 19:2
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    2 Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.

  • Mark 4:12
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    12 So that seeing they may see, and it will not be clear to them; and hearing it, they will not get the sense; for fear that they may be turned again to me and have forgiveness.

  • Rom 3:17
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    17 And of the way of peace they have no knowledge:

  • 1 John 2:19
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    19 They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.

  • Jer 9:13
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    13 And the Lord said, Because they have given up my law which I put before them, giving no attention to my voice and not being guided by it;

  • 2 Pet 2:12
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    12 But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;

  • Rom 6:21
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    21 What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.

  • 2 Tim 3:13
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    13 Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.

  • Jer 2:19
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    19 The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

  • Ezek 18:26
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    26 When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him; in the evil which he has done death will overtake him.

  • Jer 23:22
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    22 But if they had been in my secret, then they would have made my people give ear to my words, turning them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

  • 2 Thess 2:10
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    10 And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.