2 Peter 2:21

American King James Version (1999)

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 to them.

Cross References

Psalm 125:5

As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be on Israel.

Psalm 85:8

I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace to his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

Proverbs 12:28

In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

Proverbs 16:31

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

Ezekiel 18:24

But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die.

Ezekiel 23:13

Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,

Ezekiel 3:20

Again, When a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.

Ezekiel 33:13

When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he has committed, he shall die for it.

Zephaniah 1:6

And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for him.

Matthew 21:32

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and you, when you had seen it, repented not afterward, that you might believe him.

Luke 12:47

And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

John 15:22

If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.

John 9:41

Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you should have no sin: but now you say, We see; therefore your sin remains.

Romans 7:12

Why the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

Galatians 6:2

Bear you one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

1 Thessalonians 4:2

For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

1 Timothy 6:14

That you keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Hebrews 10:26

For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,

James 4:17

Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

2 Peter 3:2

That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Savior:

Jude 1:3

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write to you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints.