2 Timothy 3:7

Difficult Times Ahead In The Last Days

⁶ For of these are those who creep into houses and lead captive silly women loaded with sins, led away with different kinds of lusts, ⁷ ever learning and never able to come to the full knowledge of the truth. ⁸ But as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so these also resist the truth, men of corrupt mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

Knowledge of the Truth

1 Timothy 2:4

who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

2 Timothy 2:25

in meekness instructing those who oppose, if perhaps God will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth,

Deuteronomy 29:4

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

Proverbs 14:6

A scorner seeks wisdom, and it is not found, but knowledge is easy to him who understands.

Isaiah 30:10-11

who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy falsehood;

Ezekiel 14:4-10

Therefore speak to them, and say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Every man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Jehovah will answer him in it by the host of his idols;

Matthew 13:11

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

John 3:20-21

For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

John 5:44

How can you believe, you who receive honor from one another and do not seek the honor that comes from God only?

John 12:42-43

Still, however, even out of the rulers, many did believe on Him. But because of the Pharisees they did not confess, lest they should be put out of the synagogue;

1 Corinthians 3:1-4

And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual ones, but as to fleshly, as to babes in Christ.

Ephesians 4:14

so that we no longer may be infants, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, in the dishonesty of men, in cunning craftiness, to the wiles of deceit.

2 Timothy 4:3-4

For a time will be when they will not endure sound doctrine, but they will heap up teachers to themselves according to their own lusts, tickling the ear.

Hebrews 5:11

of whom we have much to say, and hard to be explained since you are dull of hearing.