2 Peter 2:21

Modern English Version

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then turn back from the holy commandment that was delivered to them.

Cross References

Psalm 125:5

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

Psalm 85:8

I will hear what God the Lord will say, for He will speak peace to His people and to His saints; but let them not turn back to folly.

Proverbs 12:28

In the path of righteousness is life, and in that path is no death.

Proverbs 16:31

The silvery hair is a crown of glory; it is found in the way of righteousness.

Ezekiel 18:24

But when a righteous man 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 remembered for his trespass that he has committed and in his sin that he has done. In them he shall die.

Ezekiel 23:13

Then I saw that she was defiled, that they both took the same way.

Ezekiel 3:20

Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits 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 I will require at your hand.

Ezekiel 33:13

When I say to the righteous that he shall surely live and he so trusts in his righteousness that he commits iniquity, all his righteousness shall not be remembered. But for that iniquity of his that he has committed, he shall die.

Zephaniah 1:6

those who have turned back from following the Lord, who have not sought the Lord nor 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 believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward repent and believe him.

Luke 12:47

“That servant who knew his master’s will, but did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

John 15:22

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

John 9:41

Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would have no sin. But now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

Romans 7:12

So then, the law is holy and the commandment is holy and just 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 commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

1 Timothy 6:14

to keep this commandment without blemish, blameless until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Hebrews 10:26

For if we willfully continue to sin after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

James 4:17

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

2 Peter 3:2

that you should remember the words that were spoken previously by the holy prophets and the commandment of our Lord and Savior spoken through us, the apostles.

Jude 1:3

Beloved, while I diligently tried to write to you of the salvation we have in common, I found it necessary to write and appeal to you to contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints.