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Friday, November 29th, 2024
the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Revised Standard Version

2 Timothy 3:7

who will listen to anybody and can never arrive at a knowledge of the truth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Apostasy;   Blindness;   Doctrines;   Fellowship;   Minister, Christian;   Wicked (People);   Women;   Worldliness;   Scofield Reference Index - Apostasy;   Thompson Chain Reference - Discernment-Dullness;   Dullness;   Fleeting Impressions;   Ignorance;   Impressions, Fleeting;   Knowledge-Ignorance;   The Topic Concordance - Corruption;   Folly;   Knowledge;   Last Days;   Manifestation;   Resistance;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Women;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Know, Knowledge;   Magic;   Timothy, First and Second, Theology of;   Truth;   Woman;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Jesus Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Truth;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Divination;   Games;   Idol;   Miracles;   Timothy, the First Epistle to;   Timothy, the Second Epistle to;   Tyre;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Titus, Epistle to;   2 Thessalonians;   2 Timothy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Gnosticism;   Ignorance;   Timothy and Titus Epistles to;   Truth;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Perilous Times;   Prophets, the;   48 To Know, Perceive, Understand;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Perfect;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for April 9;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
These women always want to learn something new, but they are never able to fully understand the truth.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
ever learnynge and never able to come vnto the knowledge of the trueth.
Hebrew Names Version
always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
New American Standard Bible
always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
New Century Version
These women are always learning new teachings, but they are never able to understand the truth fully.
Update Bible Version
ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Webster's Bible Translation
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
English Standard Version
always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
World English Bible
always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Weymouth's New Testament
and are always learning something new, and yet are never able to arrive at real knowledge of the truth.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and neuere perfitli comynge to the science of treuthe.
English Revised Version
ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Berean Standard Bible
always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
Contemporary English Version
These women always want to learn something new, but they never can discover the truth.
Amplified Bible
always learning and listening to anybody who will teach them, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
American Standard Version
ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Bible in Basic English
Ever learning, and never coming to the knowledge of what is true.
Complete Jewish Bible
who are always learning but never able to come to full knowledge of the truth.
Darby Translation
always learning, and never able to come to [the] knowledge of [the] truth.
International Standard Version
These women are always studying but are never able to arrive at a full knowledge of the truth.1 Timothy 2:4;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
who, in all time learning, never to the knowledge of the truth are able to come.
Murdock Translation
who are always learning, and can never come to the knowledge of the truth.
King James Version (1611)
Euer learning, and neuer able to come to the knowledge of the trueth.
New Living Translation
(Such women are forever following new teachings, but they are never able to understand the truth.)
New Life Bible
Such women are always listening to new teaching. But they are never able to understand the truth.
New Revised Standard
who are always being instructed and can never arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Which women are euer learning, and are neuer able to come to the acknowledging of the trueth.
George Lamsa Translation
Ever striving to learn, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ever learning and never, unto a personal knowledge of truth, able to come;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Ever learning, and never attaining to the knowledge of the truth.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Euer learnyng, and neuer able to come vnto the knowledge of the trueth.
Good News Translation
women who are always trying to learn but who can never come to know the truth.
Christian Standard Bible®
always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
King James Version
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Lexham English Bible
always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
Literal Translation
always learning, but never being able to come to a full knowledge of the truth.
Young's Literal Translation
always learning, and never to a knowledge of truth able to come,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
euer lernynge, and are neuer able to come vnto the knowlege of the trueth.
Mace New Testament (1729)
and by lending an assiduous ear to such lessons, render it impossible they should ever be acquainted with the truth.
New English Translation
Such women are always seeking instruction, yet never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
New King James Version
always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Vulnerable women will believe any new teaching that promises them a better life than the one they have. They will be unable to see the truth.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Legacy Standard Bible
always learning and never able to come to the full knowledge of the truth.

Contextual Overview

1 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people. 6 For among them are those who make their way into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and swayed by various impulses, 7 who will listen to anybody and can never arrive at a knowledge of the truth. 8 As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of corrupt mind and counterfeit faith; 9 but they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

learning: 2 Timothy 4:3, 2 Timothy 4:4, Deuteronomy 29:4, Proverbs 14:6, Isaiah 30:10, Isaiah 30:11, Ezekiel 14:4-10, Matthew 13:11, John 3:20, John 3:21, John 5:44, John 12:42, John 12:43, 1 Corinthians 3:1-4, Ephesians 4:14, Hebrews 5:11

never: 1 Timothy 2:4

the knowledge: 2 Timothy 2:25

Reciprocal: Isaiah 28:10 - For precept Amos 8:12 - shall run John 8:32 - ye shall 1 Corinthians 3:12 - wood 1 Timothy 1:7 - understanding

Cross-References

Genesis 2:25
And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.
Genesis 3:5
For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
Genesis 3:10
And he said, "I heard the sound of thee in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."
Genesis 3:11
He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"
Deuteronomy 28:34
so that you shall be driven mad by the sight which your eyes shall see.
2 Kings 6:20
As soon as they entered Sama'ria, Eli'sha said, "O LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see." So the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and lo, they were in the midst of Sama'ria.
Isaiah 28:20
For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on it, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in it.
Isaiah 59:6
Their webs will not serve as clothing; men will not cover themselves with what they make. Their works are works of iniquity, and deeds of violence are in their hands.
Luke 16:23
and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes, and saw Abraham far off and Laz'arus in his bosom.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ever learning,.... Some new notion and practice or another: and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth; partly because of the teachers, which they heap up to themselves, who are unapt to teach, are blind and ignorant guides, and know not the truth, but are enemies to it, and resist it; and partly because of themselves, the sins they are laden, and the lusts they are led away with, which hinder them from coming to the knowledge of the truth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ever learning - That is, these “silly women;” for so the Greek demands. The idea is, that they seeM to be disciples. They put themselves wholly under the care of these professedly religious teachers, but they never acquire the true knowledge of the way of salvation.

And never able to come to the knowledge of the truth - They may learn many things, but the true nature of religion they do not learn. There are many such persons in the world, who, whatever attention they may pay to religion, never understand its nature. Many obtain much speculative acquaintance with the “doctrines” of Christianity, but never become savingly acquainted with the system; many study the constitution and government of the church, but remain strangers to practical piety; many become familiar with the various philosophical theories of religion, but never become truly acquainted with what religion is; and many embrace visionary theories, who never show that they are influenced by the spirit of the gospel. Nothing is more common than for persons to be very busy and active in religion, and even to “learn” many things about it, who still remain strangers to the saving power of the gospel.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 7. Ever learning — From their false teachers, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth, because that teaching never leads to the truth; for, although there was a form of godliness, which gave them a sort of authority to teach, yet, as they denied the power of godliness, they never could bring their votaries to the knowledge of the saving power of Christianity.

There are many professors of Christianity still who answer the above description. They hear, repeatedly hear, it may be, good sermons; but, as they seldom meditate on what they hear, they derive little profit from the ordinances of God. They have no more grace now than they had several years ago, though hearing all the while, and perhaps not wickedly departing from the Lord. They do not meditate, they do not think, they do not reduce what they hear to practice; therefore, even under the preaching of an apostle, they could not become wise to salvation.


 
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