2 Timothy 3:7

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Isa 30:10-11 : 10 who tell the seers, "Don't see!" and to the prophets, "Don't prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits. 11 Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us."
  • 2 Tim 2:25 : 25 in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
  • 2 Tim 4:3-4 : 3 For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts; 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables.
  • Heb 5:11 : 11 About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.
  • 1 Cor 3:1-4 : 1 Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready, 3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men? 4 For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?
  • 1 Tim 2:4 : 4 who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.
  • Deut 29:4 : 4 but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
  • Prov 14:6 : 6 A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn't find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
  • Matt 13:11 : 11 He answered them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
  • John 5:44 : 44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?
  • John 12:42-43 : 42 Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn't confess it, so that they wouldn't be put out of the synagogue, 43 for they loved men's praise more than God's praise.
  • John 3:20-21 : 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."
  • Ezek 14:4-9 : 4 Therefore speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh 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 tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Return, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations. 7 For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Yahweh 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 you shall know that I am Yahweh. 9 If the prophet is deceived and speak a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. 10 They shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet shall be even as the iniquity of him who seeks [to him];
  • Eph 4:14 : 14 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

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  • 2 Tim 3:8-9
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    8Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith, are rejected.

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

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

    5holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

    6For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

  • 1 Tim 1:6-7
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    6from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;

    7desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly 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 you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

    15From infancy, 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,

    20a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

  • 2 Tim 4:3-4
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    3For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

    4and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables.

  • 2 Pet 2:20-21
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    20For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

    21For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

  • 1 Tim 6:3-5
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    3If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn't consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

    4he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

    5constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

  • 2 Pet 3:16-18
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    16as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

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

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

  • Titus 1:14
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    14not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

  • 2 Thess 2:10-12
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    10and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

    11Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;

    12that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

  • Titus 1:16
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    16They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

  • 2 Pet 2:2-3
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    2Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

    3In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

  • Eph 4:14
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    14that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

  • 2 Tim 2:14-16
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    14Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

    15Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

    16But shun empty chatter, for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

  • 2 Pet 1:12
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    12Therefore I will not be negligent to 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 gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

  • 1 Tim 5:13
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    13Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

  • 2 Pet 2:18
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    18For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

  • Titus 3:11
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    11knowing that such a one is perverted, and sins, being self-condemned.

  • 1 Tim 6:20
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    20Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

  • Jude 1:10
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    10But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they are destroyed in these things.

  • Titus 1:10-11
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    10For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

    11whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake.

  • Rom 3:17
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    17The way of peace, they haven't known."

  • 2 Pet 2:14
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    14having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

  • Eph 4:20
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    20But you did not learn Christ that way;

  • 2 Pet 3:3
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    3knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,

  • 1 Tim 3:6
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    6not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

  • 2 Tim 3:1
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    1But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.

  • 2 Tim 2:18
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    18men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.

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