who are always studying yet never able to recognize truth.
We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming;
who desires everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
About this we have much to say that is hard to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.
correcting opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant that they will repent and come to know the truth
How can you believe when you accept glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the one who alone is God?
A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for one who understands.
He answered, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.