2 Peter 2:21 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy mitzvah delivered to them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For never to have obtained a [full, personal] knowledge of the way of righteousness would have been better for them than, having obtained [such knowledge], to turn back from the holy commandment which was [verbally] delivered to them.

American Standard Version (1901)

For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

Common English Bible

It would be better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having come to know it, to turn back from the holy commandment entrusted to them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of justice than, after acknowledging it, to turn away from that holy commandment which was handed on to them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For it had been better for them not to have known the way of justice, than after they have known it, to turn back from that holy commandment which was delivered to them.

2 Peter 2:21 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 125:5

But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, The LORD will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Shalom be on Yisra'el.

Psalm 85:8

I will hear what God, the LORD, will speak, for he will speak shalom to his people, his holy ones; but let them not turn again to folly.

Proverbs 12:28

In the way of righteousness is life; in its path there is no death.

Proverbs 16:31

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

Ezekiel 18:24

But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die.

Ezekiel 23:13

I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way.

Ezekiel 3:20

Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit 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 righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.

Ezekiel 33:13

When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he die.

Zephaniah 1:6

those who have turned back from following the LORD, and those who haven't sought the LORD nor inquired after him.

Matthew 21:32

For Yochanan came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn't believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn't even repent afterward, that you might believe him.

Luke 12:47

That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare, nor do what he wanted, will 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

Yeshua 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 indeed is holy, and the mitzvah holy, and righteous, and good.

Galatians 6:2

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the Torah of Messiah.

1 Thessalonians 4:2

For you know what charge we gave you through the Lord Yeshua.

1 Timothy 6:14

that you keep the mitzvah without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah;

Hebrews 10:26

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

James 4:17

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

2 Peter 3:2

that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the mitzvot of us, the emissaries of the Lord and Savior:

Jude 1:3

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the holy ones.