2 Timothy 3:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Exod 7:12 : 12 For every one of them put down his rod on the earth, and they became snakes: but Aaron's rod made a meal of their rods.
  • Exod 9:11 : 11 And the wonder-workers were not able to take their places before Moses, because of the disease; for the disease was on the wonder-workers and on all the Egyptians.
  • 1 Kgs 22:25 : 25 And Micaiah said, Truly, you will see on that day when you go into an inner room to keep yourself safe.
  • Ps 76:10 : 10 The ... will give you praise; the rest of ...
  • Jer 28:15-17 : 15 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Give ear, now, Hananiah; the Lord has not sent you; but you are making this people put their faith in what is false. 16 For this reason the Lord has said, See, I will send you away from off the face of the earth: this year death will overtake you, because you have said words against the Lord. 17 So death came to Hananiah the prophet the same year, in the seventh month.
  • Jer 29:21-23 : 21 This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said about Ahab, the son of Kolaiah, and about Zedekiah, the son of Maaseiah, who are saying to you what is false in my name: See, I will give them up into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and he will put them to death before your eyes. 22 And their fate will be used as a curse by all the prisoners of Judah who are in Babylon, who will say, May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, who were burned in the fire by the king of Babylon; 23 Because they have done shame in Israel, and have taken their neighbours' wives, and in my name have said false words, which I did not give them orders to say; and I myself am the witness, says the Lord.
  • Jer 29:31-32 : 31 Send to all those who have been taken away, saying, This is what the Lord has said about Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has been acting as a prophet to you, and I did not send him, and has made you put your faith in what is false; 32 For this cause the Lord has said, Truly I will send punishment on Shemaiah and on his seed; not a man of his family will have a place among this people, and he will not see the good which I am going to do to my people, says the Lord: because he has said words against the Lord.
  • Jer 37:19 : 19 Where now are your prophets who said to you, The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land?
  • Acts 13:11 : 11 And now, see, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind and not able to see the sun for a time. And straight away a dark mist came down on him; and he went about looking for a guide.
  • Acts 19:15-17 : 15 And the evil spirit, answering, said to them, I have knowledge of Jesus, and of Paul, but who are you? 16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was, jumping on them, was stronger than the two of them, and overcame them, so that they went running from that house, wounded and without their clothing. 17 And this came to the ears of all those, Jews and Greeks, who were living at Ephesus; and fear came on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was made great.
  • 2 Tim 3:8 : 8 And 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.
  • Exod 8:18-19 : 18 And the wonder-workers with their secret arts, attempting to make insects, were unable to do so: and there were insects on man and on beast. 19 Then the wonder-workers said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: but Pharaoh's heart was hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

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    6 For 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,

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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.

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  • 2 Pet 2:2-3
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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.

    3 And 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.

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    13 Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.

  • 1 Cor 3:18-20
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    18 Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

    19 For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:

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  • Rom 1:22
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  • 2 Tim 2:16-18
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    16 But take no part in wrong and foolish talk, for those who do so will go farther into evil,

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    31 So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.

    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.

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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;

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    13 This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.)

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

    15 To the clean in heart all things are clean: but to those who are unclean and without faith nothing is clean; they become unclean in mind and in thought.

    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.

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    3 By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

  • 2 Pet 2:20-21
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    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.

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    16 And 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.

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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;

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    18 How they said to you, In the last days there will be men who, guided by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things.

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    9 Then he makes clear to them what they have done, even their evil works in which they have taken pride.

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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.

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

  • 2 Cor 11:19
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    19 For you put up with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves.

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    18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.

  • 2 Thess 2:10-11
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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.

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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;

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    8 The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.

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    14 But their minds were made hard: for to this very day at the reading of the old agreement the same veil is still unlifted; though it is taken away in Christ.

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    38 And now I say to you, Do nothing to these men, but let them be: for if this teaching or this work is of men, it will come to nothing:

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    4 And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

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    3 And when the foolish man is walking in the way, he has no sense and lets everyone see that he is foolish.

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

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    3 Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin, the son of destruction,

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    16 I say again, Let me not seem foolish to anyone; but if I do, put up with me as such, so that I may take a little glory to myself.

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    9 The purpose of the foolish is sin: and the hater of authority is disgusting to others.

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    24 The sins of some men are clearly seen, going before them to be judged; but with others, their sins go after them.