A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for one who understands.
2 Timothy 3:7 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional who are always being instructed and can never arrive at a knowledge of the truth. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [These weak women will listen to anybody who will teach them]; they are forever inquiring and getting information, but are never able to arrive at a recognition and knowledge of the Truth. American Standard Version (1901) ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Common English Bible These women are always learning, but they can never arrive at an understanding of the truth. Catholic Public Domain Version always learning, yet never achieving knowledge of the truth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Ever learning, and never attaining to the knowledge of the truth. |
A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for one who understands.
He answered, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
How can you believe when you accept glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the one who alone is God?
We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people's trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming.
But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear.
correcting opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant that they will repent and come to know the truth,
About this we have much to say that is hard to explain, since you have become dull in understanding.