2 Timothy 3:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

Always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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  • Isa 30:10-11 : 10 Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits: 11 Get 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 humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth,
  • 2 Tim 4:3-4 : 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, they will gather to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables.
  • Heb 5:11 : 11 Of whom we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
  • 1 Tim 2:4 : 4 Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
  • Deut 29:4 : 4 Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
  • Prov 14:6 : 6 A scorner seeks wisdom and does not find it, but knowledge is easy to him who understands.
  • Matt 13:11 : 11 He replied, Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
  • 1 Cor 3:1-4 : 1 And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, even as to infants in Christ. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with solid food: for until now you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are you able. 3 For you are still carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men? 4 For while one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal?
  • Eph 4:14 : 14 That we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive;
  • John 3:20-21 : 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.
  • John 12:42-43 : 42 Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue; 43 for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
  • Ezek 14:4-9 : 4 Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Every man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him who comes according to the multitude of his idols; 5 That I may seize the house of Israel in their own hearts because they are all estranged from me through their idols. 6 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Repent, and turn from your idols and turn away your faces from all your abominations. 7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger who sojourns in Israel, who separates himself from me and sets up his idols in his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself: 8 And I will set my face against that man and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and you shall know that I am the LORD. 9 And if the prophet is deceived when he has spoken a thing, I the LORD 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 the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him who seeks unto him;

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    8Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disqualified concerning the faith.

    9But they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifested to all, as theirs also was.

  • 2 Tim 3:4-6
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    4Traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

    5Having a form of godliness but denying its power. From such turn away.

    6For of this sort are those who creep into households and lead captive gullible women loaded with sins, led away by various lusts,

  • 1 Tim 1:6-7
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    6From which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk,

    7Desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor what they affirm.

  • 2 Tim 3:13-15
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    13But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

    14But continue in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them;

    15And that from childhood you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

  • Rom 2:19-20
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    19And are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

    20An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, who have the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

  • 2 Tim 4:3-4
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    3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, they will gather to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

    4And they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables.

  • 2 Pet 2:20-21
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    20For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.

    21For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.

  • 1 Tim 6:3-5
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    3If anyone teaches otherwise, and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness;

    4He is proud, knowing nothing, but obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,

    5Useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself.

  • 2 Pet 3:16-18
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    16As also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to understand, which those who are unlearned and unstable twist, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

    17You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things beforehand, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.

    18But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen.

  • Titus 1:14
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    14Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn from the truth.

  • 2 Thess 2:10-12
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    10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

    11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

    12That they all might be condemned who did not believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

  • Titus 1:16
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    16They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.

  • 2 Pet 2:2-3
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    2And many will follow their pernicious ways; by whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

    3And through covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; their judgment is long overdue, and their destruction does not slumber.

  • Eph 4:14
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    14That we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive;

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    14Remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord not to argue about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers.

    15Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

    16But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness.

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    12Therefore I will not be negligent to always remind you of these things, though you know them and are established in the present truth.

  • 2 Tim 2:25
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    25in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth,

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    13And besides, they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but also gossipers and busybodies, speaking things they ought not.

  • 2 Pet 2:18
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    18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through wantonness, those who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

  • Titus 3:11
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    11Knowing that such a person is warped and sinful, being self-condemned.

  • 1 Tim 6:20
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    20O Timothy, guard what has been committed to your trust, avoiding profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge;

  • Jude 1:10
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    10But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.

  • Titus 1:10-11
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    10For there are many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

    11Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.

  • Rom 3:17
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    17'And the way of peace they have not known:'

  • 2 Pet 2:14
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    14Having eyes full of adultery and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices and are accursed children.

  • Eph 4:20
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    20But you have not so learned Christ,

  • 2 Pet 3:3
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    3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

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    6Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

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    1Know this also, that in the last days perilous times will come.

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    18who have strayed concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past; and they overthrow the faith of some.

  • Titus 3:3
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    3For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.