2 Timothy 3:7

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“who are always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.”

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BSBPD

“who are always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“always learning, and never to a knowledge of truth able to come,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 2 Timothy 3:7 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 29:4Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
  2. Proverbs 14:6A mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.
  3. Isaiah 30:10They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.
  4. Ezekiel 14:4Therefore speak to them and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When any Israelite sets up idols in his heart and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him according to his great idolatry,
  5. Matthew 13:11He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
  6. John 3:20Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
  7. John 5:44How can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
  8. John 12:42Nevertheless, many of the leaders believed in Him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue.
  9. 1 Corinthians 3:1Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.
  10. Ephesians 4:14Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.
  11. 1 Timothy 2:4who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
  12. 2 Timothy 2:25He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.
  13. 2 Timothy 4:3For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
  14. Hebrews 5:11We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.

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