2 Peter 2:21 - Tree of Life Version

²¹ For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after learning about it, to turn back from the holy commandment passed on to them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ 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

²¹ 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)

²¹ 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

²¹ 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

²¹ 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.

2 Peter 2:21 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 125:5

But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Adonai will lead them away with evildoers. Shalom be upon Israel.

Psalm 85:8

Show us Your mercy, Adonai, and grant us Your salvation.

Proverbs 12:28

In the path of righteousness is life— it is a path to immortality.

Proverbs 16:31

Gray hair is a crown of glory, found on the path of righteousness.

Ezekiel 18:24

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

Ezekiel 23:13

I saw that she defiled herself; they both went the same way.

Ezekiel 3:20

When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and acts perversely, I will lay a stumbling block before him and he will die. Because you have not warned him, he will die in his sin. His righteous deeds that he has done will not be remembered—but I will require his blood at your hand.

Ezekiel 33:13

When I tell the righteous that he will surely live, but he trusts in his own righteousness and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered. But in his iniquity that he has committed, he will die.

Zephaniah 1:6

those turning from following Adonai, not seeking Adonai or consulting 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 prostitutes did believe him; and even after you saw this, you had no change of heart to believe him.”

Luke 12:47

“That slave who knew his master’s will but did not prepare or act according to his desire will be harshly whipped.

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

Yeshua said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin. But now you say, ‘We see.’ So your sin remains.”

Romans 7:12

So then, the Torah is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

Galatians 6:2

Bear one another’s burdens, and in this way you fulfill the Torah of Messiah.

1 Thessalonians 4:2

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

1 Timothy 6:14

to keep this command without spot or blame until the appearing of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

Hebrews 10:26

For if we keep on sinning willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

James 4:17

Therefore whoever knows the right thing to do and does not do it—for him it is sin.

2 Peter 3:2

to remember the words previously proclaimed by the holy prophets and the commandment of our Lord and Savior through your emissaries.

Jude 1:3

Loved ones, though very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I felt it necessary to write to you urging you to continue to contend for the faith that was once for all handed down to the kedoshim.