2 Peter 2:21

Legacy Standard Bible

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them.

Cross References

Psalm 125:5

But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.

Psalm 85:8

¶Let me hear what the God, Yahweh, will speak; For He will speak peace to His people, to His holy ones; But let them not turn back to folly.

Proverbs 12:28

In the path of righteousness is life, And in its pathway there is no death.

Proverbs 16:31

Gray hair is a crown of beauty; It is found in the way of righteousness.

Ezekiel 18:24

“But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, does injustice, and does according to all the abominations that a wicked man does, will he live? All his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered for his unfaithfulness which he has committed and his sin which he has committed; for them he will die.

Ezekiel 23:13

And I saw that she had defiled herself; they both took the same way.

Ezekiel 3:20

Again, when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and does evil, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.

Ezekiel 33:13

When I say to the righteous he will surely live, and he so trusts in his righteousness that he does iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but in that same iniquity of his which he has done he will die.

Zephaniah 1:6

And those who have turned back from following Yahweh, And those who have not sought Yahweh or inquired of Him.”

Matthew 21:32

For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him; and you, seeing this, did not even regret afterward so as to believe him.

Luke 12:47

And that slave who knew his master’s will and did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will receive many beatings,

John 15:22

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

John 9:41

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.

Romans 7:12

So, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

Galatians 6:2

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

1 Thessalonians 4:2

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

1 Timothy 6:14

that you keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Hebrews 10:26

For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

James 4:17

Therefore, to one who knows to do the right thing and does not do it, to him it is sin.

2 Peter 3:2

that you should remember the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken by your apostles,

Jude 1:3

Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you exhorting that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints.