2 Timothy 3:7

Difficult Times Ahead In The Last Days

⁶ for from these are those who creep into houses, and take captive petty women laden with sins, being led away by various impulses, ⁷ ever learning and never able to come to knowledge of truth. ⁸ And by which way Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also do these oppose the truth. Men corrupted in mind, worthless about the faith.

Knowledge of the Truth

1 Timothy 2:4

who wants all men to be saved and to come to knowledge of truth.

2 Timothy 2:25

in mildness correcting those who oppose. Perhaps God may grant them repentance for recognition of the truth,

Deuteronomy 29:4

yet LORD has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

Proverbs 14:6

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and [finds it] not, but knowledge is easy to him who has understanding.

Isaiah 30:10-11

who say to the seers, Do not see, and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things. Speak to us smooth things. Prophesy deceits.

Ezekiel 14:4-10

Therefore speak to them, and say to them, Thus says lord LORD: Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet, I LORD will

Matthew 13:11

And having answered, he said to them, Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to those men it has not been given.

John 3:20-21

For every man who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, so that his works may not be exposed.

John 5:44

How can ye believe, who receive glory from each other, and seek not the glory from the only God?

John 12:42-43

Yet, nevertheless, even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess, so that they would not become excommunicated from the synagogue,

1 Corinthians 3:1-4

And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, as to the childlike in Christ.

Ephesians 4:14

So that we may no longer be childish, tossed about and carried about by every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men in craftiness with the methodology of error.

2 Timothy 4:3-4

For there will be time when they will not tolerate sound doctrine, but they will accumulate teachers to themselves according to their own desires, who tickle the ear,

Hebrews 5:11

About whom, much subject matter from us is also difficult to explain, since ye have become sluggish in hearing.