Verse 21

for it were better to them not to have acknowledged the way of the righteousness, than having acknowledged `it', to turn back from the holy command delivered to them,

Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 18:24 : 24 And in the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity, According to all the abominations That the wicked hath done, he doth -- thus he liveth, All his righteousnesses that he hath done are not remembered, For his trespass that he hath trespassed, And for his sin that he hath sinned, For them he doth die.
  • Luke 12:47 : 47 `And that servant, who having known his lord's will, and not having prepared, nor having gone according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes,
  • Heb 6:4-6 : 4 for `it is' impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit, 5 and did taste the good saying of God, the powers also of the coming age, 6 and having fallen away, again to renew `them' to reformation, having crucified again to themselves the Son of God, and exposed to public shame.
  • Jas 4:17 : 17 to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.
  • Ezek 3:20 : 20 `And in the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, and he hath done perversity, and I have put a stumbling-block before him, he dieth; because thou hast not warned him, in his sin he dieth, and not remembered is his righteousness that he hath done, and his blood from thy hand I require.
  • John 9:41 : 41 Jesus said to them, `If ye were blind, ye were not having had sin, but now ye say -- We see, therefore doth your sin remain.
  • John 15:22 : 22 if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now pretext they have not for their sin.
  • Zeph 1:6 : 6 And those removing from after Jehovah, And who have not sought Jehovah, nor besought Him.
  • Rom 7:12 : 12 so that the law, indeed, `is' holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.
  • 1 Thess 4:2 : 2 for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,
  • Matt 11:23-24 : 23 `And thou, Capernaum, which unto the heaven wast exalted, unto hades shalt be brought down, because if in Sodom had been done the mighty works that were done in thee, it had remained unto this day; 24 but I say to you, to the land of Sodom it shall be more tolerable in a day of judgment than to thee.'
  • Matt 21:32 : 32 for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last -- to believe him.
  • Ezek 23:13 : 13 And I see that she hath been defiled, One way `is' to them both.
  • Ps 36:3-4 : 3 The words of his mouth `are' iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently -- to do good. 4 Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'
  • Ps 125:5 : 5 As to those turning `to' their crooked ways, Jehovah causeth them to go with workers of iniquity. Peace on Israel!
  • Prov 12:28 : 28 In the path of righteousness `is' life, And in the way of `that' path `is' no death!
  • Prov 16:31 : 31 A crown of beauty `are' grey hairs, In the way of righteousness it is found.