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.

Bible References

It had

Matthew 11:23
And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to Hades, for if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in those of Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
Luke 12:47
And that slave who knew his lord's will and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
John 9:41
Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin; but now because ye say, We see, therefore your sin abides.
John 15:22
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

The way

Proverbs 12:28
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
Proverbs 16:31
Old age is a crown of glory if it is found in the way of righteousness.
Matthew 21:32
For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not, but the publicans and the harlots believed him, and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward that ye might believe him.

To turn

Psalm 36:3
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit; he has left off to be wise and to do good.
Psalm 125:5
As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall take them away with the workers of iniquity; and peace shall be upon Israel.
Ezekiel 3:20
Again, When the righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die because thou hast not given him warning; he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at thy hand.
Ezekiel 18:24
But if the righteous should leave his righteousness and commit iniquity, and do according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be mentioned; by his rebellion in which he has trespassed and by his sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die.
Ezekiel 23:13
Then I saw that she was defiled, that they both took the same way
Zephaniah 1:6
and those that have turned back from following the LORD and those that did not seek the LORD, nor enquired about him.

Holy

Romans 7:12
So the law is truly holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
1 Thessalonians 4:2
For ye already know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

General references

Genesis 24:6
And Abraham said unto him, Beware that thou not bring my son there again.
Numbers 14:4
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
Deuteronomy 14:7
Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of those that chew the cud or of those that divide the cloven hoof: the camel and the hare and the coney, for they chew the cud, but do not divide the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you;
Jeremiah 34:11
But afterward they repented and caused the slaves and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return and brought them into subjection for slaves and for handmaids.
Ezekiel 33:18
When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die thereby.
Matthew 7:27
and the rain descended, and the rivers came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it.
Luke 14:30
saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Luke 17:32
Remember Lot's wife.
1 Timothy 5:15
For some are already turned back after Satan.