2 Timothy 3:7

Difficult Times Ahead In The Last Days

⁶ For of this sort are those who creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with various lusts, ⁷ always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁸ And in the manner that Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth, men of corrupt understanding, reprobate concerning the faith.

Knowledge of the Truth

1 Timothy 2:4

who desires that all men be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth.

2 Timothy 2:25

that with meekness they might teach those that resist, if God peradventure will grant unto them that they might repent and know the truth,

Deuteronomy 29:4

Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear until today.

Proverbs 14:6

The scorner sought wisdom and found it not, but wisdom comes easy unto him that understands.

Isaiah 30:10-11

Who say to those that see, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy right things unto us, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

Ezekiel 14:4-10

Therefore speak unto them and say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Every man of the house of Israel that sets up his idols in his heart and has established the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face and comes to the prophet, I, the LORD, will answer him that comes like this in the multitude of his idols

Matthew 13:11

He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it is not given.

John 3:20-21

For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

John 5:44

How can ye believe, who take glory one from another, and seek not the glory that comes only from God?

John 12:42-43

Nevertheless, even among the princes many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue;

1 Corinthians 3:1-4

And I, brothers, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

Ephesians 4:14

That we no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive,

2 Timothy 4:3-4

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, they shall heap up unto themselves teachers who shall speak to them according to their own lusts,

Hebrews 5:11

Of whom we have many things to say and difficult to declare, seeing ye are hard of hearing.