2 Timothy 3:7

Difficult Times Ahead In The Last Days

⁶ For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires, ⁷ Ever learning, and never coming to the knowledge of what is true. ⁸ And as James and Jambres went against Moses, so do these go against what is true: men of evil minds, who, tested by faith, are seen to be false.

Knowledge of the Truth

1 Timothy 2:4

Whose desire is that all men may have salvation and come to the knowledge of what is true.

2 Timothy 2:25

Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge,

Deuteronomy 29:4

But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.

Proverbs 14:6

The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.

Isaiah 30:10-11

Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not give us word of what is true, but say false things to give us pleasure:

Ezekiel 14:4-10

For this cause say to them, These are the words of the Lord: Every man of Israel who has taken his false god into his heart, and put before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, and comes to the prophet; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself in agreement with the number of his false gods;

Matthew 13:11

And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

John 3:20-21

The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.

John 5:44

How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?

John 12:42-43

However, a number even of the rulers had belief in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not say so openly for fear that they might be shut out from the Synagogue:

1 Corinthians 3:1-4

And the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ.

Ephesians 4:14

So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;

2 Timothy 4:3-4

For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them;

Hebrews 5:11

Of whom we have much to say which it is hard to make clear, because you are slow of hearing.