2 Peter 2:21

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

Cross References

Psalm 125:5

But those who turn aside upon their crooked ways the Lord will lead away with evildoers! Peace be in Israel!

Psalm 85:8

Let me hear what God the Lord will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints, to those who turn to him in their hearts.

Proverbs 12:28

In the path of righteousness is life, but the way of error leads to death.

Proverbs 16:31

A hoary head is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.

Ezekiel 18:24

But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity and does the same abominable things that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds which he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, he shall die.

Ezekiel 23:13

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

Ezekiel 3:20

Again, if 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 warned him, he shall die for 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

Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet if he trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in the iniquity that he has committed he shall die.

Zephaniah 1:6

those who have turned back from following the Lord, who do not seek the Lord or inquire 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 the harlots believed him; and even when you saw it, you did not afterward repent and believe him.

Luke 12:47

And that servant who knew his master's will, but did not make ready or act according to his will, shall receive a severe beating.

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 guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.

Romans 7:12

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

Galatians 6:2

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

1 Thessalonians 4:2

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

1 Timothy 6:14

I charge you to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Hebrews 10:26

For if we sin deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

James 4:17

Whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

2 Peter 3:2

that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles.

Jude 1:3

Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.