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

Holy

Romans 7:12

1 Thessalonians 4:2

General references

Bible References

It had

And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.

The way

In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

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

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.

Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit 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 hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,

And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for him.

Holy

Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

General references

And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.

And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.

But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.

And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

Remember Lot's wife.

For some are already turned aside after Satan.