2 Timothy 3:7

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Ever learning, and never coming to the knowledge of what is true.

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  • Isa 30:10-11 : 10 Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not give us word of what is true, but say false things to give us pleasure: 11 Get out of the good way, turning from the right road; do not keep the Holy One of Israel before our minds.
  • 2 Tim 2:25 : 25 Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge,
  • 2 Tim 4:3-4 : 3 For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them; 4 And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.
  • Heb 5:11 : 11 Of whom we have much to say which it is hard to make clear, because you are slow of hearing.
  • 1 Cor 3:1-4 : 1 And the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ. 2 I gave you milk and not meat, because you were, then, unable to take it, and even now you are not able; 3 Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as natural men? 4 For when one says, I am of Paul; and another says, I am of Apollos; are you not talking like natural men?
  • 1 Tim 2:4 : 4 Whose desire is that all men may have salvation and come to the knowledge of what is true.
  • Deut 29:4 : 4 But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.
  • Prov 14:6 : 6 The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.
  • Matt 13:11 : 11 And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
  • John 5:44 : 44 How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?
  • John 12:42-43 : 42 However, a number even of the rulers had belief in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not say so openly for fear that they might be shut out from the Synagogue: 43 For the praise of men was dearer to them than the approval of God.
  • John 3:20-21 : 20 The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen. 21 But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.
  • Ezek 14:4-9 : 4 For this cause say to them, These are the words of the Lord: Every man of Israel who has taken his false god into his heart, and put before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, and comes to the prophet; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself in agreement with the number of his false gods; 5 So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods. 6 For this cause say to the children of Israel, These are the words of the Lord: Come back and give up your false gods and let your faces be turned from your disgusting things. 7 When any one of the men of Israel, or of those from other lands who are living in Israel, who has become strange to me, and takes his false gods into his heart, and puts before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, comes to the prophet to get directions from me; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself: 8 And my face will be turned against that man, and I will make him a sign and a common saying, cutting him off from among my people; and you will be certain that I am the Lord. 9 And if the prophet, tricked by deceit, says anything, it is I the Lord by whom he has been tricked, and I will put out my hand against him, and he will be cut off from among my people Israel. 10 And the punishment of their sin will be on them: the sin of the prophet will be the same as the sin of him who goes to him for directions;
  • Eph 4:14 : 14 So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;

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  • 2 Tim 3:8-9
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    8And as James and Jambres went against Moses, so do these go against what is true: men of evil minds, who, tested by faith, are seen to be false.

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

  • 2 Tim 3:4-6
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    4False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;

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

    6For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires,

  • 1 Tim 1:6-7
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    6From which some have been turned away, giving themselves to foolish talking;

    7Desiring to be teachers of the law, though they have no knowledge of what they say or of the statements which they make so certainly.

  • 2 Tim 3:13-15
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    13Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.

    14But see that you keep to the teaching you have been given and the things of which you are certain, conscious of who has been your teacher;

    15And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.

  • Rom 2:19-20
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    19In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark,

    20A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true;

  • 2 Tim 4:3-4
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    3For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them;

    4And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.

  • 2 Pet 2:20-21
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    20For 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.

    21For 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.

  • 1 Tim 6:3-5
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    3If any man gives different teaching, not in agreement with the true words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the teaching which is in agreement with true religion,

    4He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,

    5Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.

  • 2 Pet 3:16-18
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    16And as he said in all his letters, which had to do with these things; in which are some hard sayings, so that, like the rest of the holy Writings, they are twisted by those who are uncertain and without knowledge, to the destruction of their souls.

    17For 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.

    18But be increased in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May he have glory now and for ever. So be it.

  • Titus 1:14
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    14Giving no attention to the fictions of the Jews and the rules of men who have no true knowledge.

  • 2 Thess 2:10-12
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    10And 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.

    11And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:

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

  • Titus 1:16
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    16They 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.

  • 2 Pet 2:2-3
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    2And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.

    3And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

  • Eph 4:14
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    14So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;

  • 2 Tim 2:14-16
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    14Put these things before them, giving them orders in the name of the Lord to keep themselves from fighting about words, which is of no profit, only causing error in their hearers.

    15Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.

    16But take no part in wrong and foolish talk, for those who do so will go farther into evil,

  • 2 Pet 1:12
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    12For this reason I will be ready at all times to keep your memory of these things awake, though you have the knowledge of them now and are well based in your present faith.

  • 2 Tim 2:25
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    25Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge,

  • 1 Tim 5:13
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    13And they get into the way of doing no work, going about from house to house; and not only doing no work, but talking foolishly, being over-interested in the business of others, saying things which they have no right to say.

  • 2 Pet 2:18
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    18For 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;

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

  • 1 Tim 6:20
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    20O Timothy, take good care of that which is given to you, turning away from the wrong and foolish talk and arguments of that knowledge which is falsely so named;

  • Jude 1:10
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    10But 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.

  • Titus 1:10-11
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    10For there are men who are not ruled by law; foolish talkers, false teachers, specially those of the circumcision,

    11By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.

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

  • 2 Pet 2:14
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    14Having 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;

  • Eph 4:20
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    20For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;

  • 2 Pet 3:3
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    3Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things,

  • 1 Tim 3:6
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    6Not one newly taken into the church, for fear that, through his high opinion of himself, he may come into the same sin as the Evil One.

  • 2 Tim 3:1
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    1But be certain of this, that in the last days times of trouble will come.

  • 2 Tim 2:18
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    18Men whose ideas are all false, who say that the coming back from the dead has even now taken place, overturning the faith of some.

  • Titus 3:3
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    3For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.