2 Timothy 3:7 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

⁷ are always learning, and yet never able to attain to a real knowledge of the Truth.

¹¹ "To you," answered Jesus, "the knowledge of the hidden truths of the Kingdom of Heaven has been imparted, but not to those.

²⁰ For he who lives an evil life hates the light, and will not come to it, for fear that his actions should be exposed; ²¹ But he who acts up to the truth comes to the light, that his actions may be shown to have been done in dependence upon God.

⁴⁴ How can you believe in me, when you receive honor from one another and do not desire the honor which comes from the only God?

⁴² Yet for all this, even among the leading men there were many who came to believe in Jesus; but, on account of the Pharisees, they did not acknowledge it, for fear that they should be expelled from their Synagogues; ⁴³ For they valued honor from men more than honor from God.

¹ But I, Brothers, could not speak to you as men with spiritual insight, but only as worldly-minded-mere infants in the Faith of Christ. ² I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you were not then able to take it. No, and even now you are not able; you are still worldly. ³ While there exist among you jealousy and party feeling, is it not true that you are worldly, and are acting merely as other men do? ⁴ When one says 'I follow Paul,' and another 'I follow Apollos,' are not you like other men?

¹⁴ Then we shall no longer be like infants, tossed backward and forward, blown about by every breath of human teaching, through the trickery and the craftiness of men, towards the snares of error;

⁴ whose will is that every one should be saved, and attain to a full knowledge of the Truth.

²⁵ He should instruct his opponents in a gentle spirit; for, possibly, God may give them a repentance that will lead to a fuller knowledge of Truth,

³ For a time will come when people will not tolerate sound teaching. They will follow their own wishes, and, in their itching for novelty, procure themselves a crowd of teachers. ⁴ They will turn a deaf ear to the Truth, and give their attention to legends instead.

¹¹ Now on this subject I have much to say, but it is difficult to explain it to you, because you have shown yourselves so slow to learn.