2 Peter 2:21

New King James Version

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having 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 away With the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon 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 back to folly.

Proverbs 12:28

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

Proverbs 16:31

The silver-haired head is a crown of glory, If 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 the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die.

Ezekiel 23:13

Then I saw that she was defiled; 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 did not give 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, but he trusts in his own righteousness and commits iniquity, none of his righteous works shall be remembered; but because of the iniquity that he has committed, he shall die.

Zephaniah 1:6

Those who have turned back from following the Lord, And 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 tax collectors and harlots believed him; and when you saw it, you did not afterward relent and believe him.

Luke 12:47

And that servant who knew his master’s will, and 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 have no 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 you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

Romans 7:12

Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment 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 commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

1 Timothy 6:14

that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing,

Hebrews 10:26

For if we sin willfully 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, 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, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.