2 Peter 2:21 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²¹ But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ For never to have obtained a [full, personal] knowledge of the way of righteousness would have been better for them than, having obtained [such knowledge], to turn back from the holy commandment which was [verbally] delivered to them.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

Common English Bible

²¹ It would be better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having come to know it, to turn back from the holy commandment entrusted to them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of justice than, after acknowledging it, to turn away from that holy commandment which was handed on to them.

2 Peter 2:21 Cross References

Ezekiel 18:24

2 For I desire not the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God, return ye and live.

James 4:17

Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you may not be judged. Behold the judge standeth before the door.

Ezekiel 3:20

And thou, O son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee: and draw upon it the plan of the city of Jerusalem.

Luke 12:47

5 And when ye see the south wind blow, you say: There will be heat: and it cometh to pass.

John 15:22

And these things will they do to you; because they have not known the Father, nor me.

1 Thessalonians 4:2

1 And that you use your endeavour to be quiet, and that you do your own business, and work with your own hands, as we commanded you:

John 9:41

All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers: and the sheep heard them not.

Zephaniah 1:6

4 The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and exceeding swift: the voice of the day of the Lord is bitter, the mighty man shall there meet with tribulation.

Matthew 21:32

0 When therefore the lord of the vineyard shall come, what will he do to those husbandmen?

Proverbs 16:31

He that despiseth the poor, reproacheth his Maker; and he that rejoiceth at another man's ruin, shall not be unpunished.

Romans 7:12

0 Now if I do that which I will not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

Ezekiel 23:13

1 And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when thy breasts were pressed in Egypt, and the papa of thy virginity broken.

Proverbs 12:28

One is as it were rich, when he hath nothing: and another is as it were poor, when he hath great riches.

Psalm 125:5

Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.

Psalm 85:8

Preserve my soul, for I am holy: save thy servant, O my God, that trusteth in thee.

Ezekiel 33:13

1 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that there came to me one that was fled from Jerusalem, saying: The city is laid waste.

Galatians 6:2

1 See what a letter I have written to you with my own hand.

1 Timothy 6:14

To Timothy my dearly beloved son, grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus our Lord.

Hebrews 10:26

5 Do not therefore lose your confidence, which hath a great reward.

2 Peter 3:2

1 Seeing then that all these things are to be dissolved, what manner of people ought you to be in holy conversation and godliness?

Jude 1:3

2 These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves, clouds without water, which are carried about by winds, trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots,