2 Timothy 3:7

Difficult Times Ahead In The Last Days

⁶ For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions. ⁷ Such women are always seeking instruction, yet never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. ⁸ And just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these people -- who have warped minds and are disqualified in the faith -- also oppose the truth.

Knowledge of the Truth

1 Timothy 2:4

since he wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

2 Timothy 2:25

correcting opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance and then knowledge of the truth

Deuteronomy 29:4

But to this very day the Lord has not given you an understanding mind, perceptive eyes, or discerning ears!

Proverbs 14:6

The scorner seeks wisdom but finds none, but understanding is easy for a discerning person.

Isaiah 30:10-11

They say to the visionaries, "See no more visions!" and to the seers, "Don't relate messages to us about what is right! Tell us nice things, relate deceptive messages.

Ezekiel 14:4-10

Therefore speak to them and say to them, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: When any one from the house of Israel erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally according to the enormity of his idolatry.

Matthew 13:11

He replied, "You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not.

John 3:20-21

For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.

John 5:44

How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don't seek the praise that comes from the only God?

John 12:42-43

Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.

1 Corinthians 3:1-4

So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

Ephesians 4:14

So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

2 Timothy 4:3-4

For there will be a time when people will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things.

Hebrews 5:11

On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.