2 Peter 2:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

It had

The way

Proverbs 12:28

Proverbs 16:31

Matthew 21:32

To turn

Zephaniah 1:6

Holy

Romans 7:12

1 Thessalonians 4:2

General references

Bible References

It had

And you, Capernaum, were you not to be lifted up to heaven? you will go down into hell: for if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have been here to this day.

And the servant who had knowledge of his lord's desires and was not ready for him and did not do as he was ordered, will be given a great number of blows;

Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would have no sin: but now that you say, We see; your sin is there still.

If I had not come and been their teacher they would have had no sin: but now they have no reason to give for their sin.

The way

In the road of righteousness is life, but the way of the evil-doer goes to death.

The grey head is a crown of glory, if it is seen in the way of righteousness.

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you had no faith in him, but the tax-farmers and the loose women had faith in him: and you, when you saw it, did not even have regret for your sins, so as to have faith in him.

To turn

In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

Again, when an upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, and I put a cause of falling in his way, death will overtake him: because you have given him no word of his danger, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, and there will be no memory of the upright acts which he has done; but I will make you responsible for his blood.

But when the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, like all the disgusting things which the evil man does, will he have life? Not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory: in the wrong which he has done and in his sin death will overtake him.

And I saw that she had become unclean; the two of them went the same way.

And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.

Holy

But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.

Because you have in mind the orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

General references

And Abraham said, Take care that you do not let my son go back to that land.

And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.

But even among these, there are some which may not be used for food: such as the camel, the hare, and the coney, which are unclean to you, because, though their food comes back, the horn of their feet is not parted in two.

But later, they took back again the servants and the servant-girls whom they had let go free, and put them again under the yoke as servants and servant-girls.

When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him in it.

And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.

And saying, This man made a start at building and is not able to make it complete.

Keep in mind Lot's wife.

For even now some are turned away to Satan.