2 Peter 2:21 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

For it was better for them not to have known the way of justice, than, having known, to turn back from the holy command delivererd 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

And those turning to their winding ways, Jehovah will cause them to go with those working iniquity: peace upon Israel.

Psalm 85:8

I will hear what God Jehovah shall speak: for he will speak peace to his people, and to his godly ones: and they shall not turn back to folly.

Proverbs 12:28

In the way of justice is life; and the way of its beaten path not death.

Proverbs 16:31

Old age a crown of glorying, shall be found in the way of justice.

Ezekiel 18:24

And in the just turning back from his justice, and doing iniquity according to all the abominations which the unjust one did, will he do and live? all his justices which he did shall not be remembered: in his transgression which he transgressed and in his sins which he sinned, in them he shall die.

Ezekiel 23:13

And I shall see that one way was defiled to both of them.

Ezekiel 3:20

And in the just turning back from his justice and doing evil, and I gave a stumbling-block before his face, he shall die: for thou didst not admonish him, in his sins he shall die, and his justice shall not be remembered which he did; and his blood will I seek from thy hand.

Ezekiel 33:13

In my saying to the just, living, he shall live; and he trusted upon his justice, and he did evil, all his justice shall not be remembered; and in his iniquity which he did he shall die in it

Zephaniah 1:6

And those departing from after Jehovah, and who sought not Jehovah, and asked not for him.

Matthew 21:32

For John came to you in the way of justice, and ye believed him not: and the publicans and harlots believed him; and ye, seeing, repented not afterwards, to believe him.

Luke 12:47

And that servant having known his lord's will, and not prepared, neither having done his will, shall be skinned with many.

John 15:22

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

John 9:41

We are not also blind? Jesus said to them If ye were blind, ye had not sinned: and now ye say, That we see; therefore your sin remains.

Romans 7:12

Therefore truly the law holy, and the command holy, and just, and good.

Galatians 6:2

Bear one another's burdens, and so fill up the law of Christ:

1 Thessalonians 4:2

For ye know what orders we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

1 Timothy 6:14

For thee to keep the command spotless, irreprehensible, until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Hebrews 10:26

For we sinning voluntarily after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there is left no more a sacrifice for sins,

James 4:17

Therefore to him knowing to do good, and not doing, to him it is sin.

2 Peter 3:2

To remember the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and the command of us the sent of the Lord and Saviour:

Jude 1:3

Dearly beloved, making all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, beseeching to fight for the faith once delivered to the holy ones.