2 Timothy 3:7

2 Timothy 3:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
• New International Version (NIV)always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
• English Standard Version (ESV)always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
• New King James Version (NKJV)always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Context of 2 Timothy 3:7

5Those people will seem to be serving God. But really they refuse to accept God's power to help them. You must stay away from people like that. 6Among those people, there are some men who find a way into people's homes. They get power over silly women who feel very guilty about their sins. Those women want to do wrong things and they cannot stop themselves. They are always trying to learn new things, but they can never really understand God's true message. 8These are people who speak against God's true message, in the same way that Jannes and Jambres spoke against Moses. Their minds have become confused. The way that they serve God is false. 9But they will not continue to do many more bad things. Everyone will see clearly that they are fools. That is what happened to Jannes and Jambres.

2 Timothy 3:7 word by word

πάντοτε μανθάνοντα καὶ μηδέποτε εἰς ἐπίγνωσιν ἀληθείας ἐλθεῖν δυνάμενα.¶Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Everπάντοτεpantote · alwaysG3842
• learningμανθάνωmanthanō · to learnG3129
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• neverμηδέποτεmēdepote · neverG3368
• ableδύναμαιdunamai · be ableG1410
• to comeἔρχομαιerchomai · to come/goG2064
• toεἰςeis · towardG1519
• the knowledgeἐπίγνωσιςepignōsis · knowledgeG1922
• of the truthἀλήθειαalētheia · truthG225

Cross-references for 2 Timothy 3:7

• 2 Timothy 4:3Do this, because a time will come when people will not listen to God's true message. Instead, they will want to hear all kinds of new messages that will make them happy. So they will find many teachers for themselves who will tell them what they want to hear.
• Deuteronomy 29:4But until now the Lord has not let you understand why he did that. You saw and you heard those things, but you did not understand.
• Proverbs 14:6If you only pretend that you want wisdom, you will not find it. But if you are careful, you will easily understand what is right.
• Isaiah 30:10They say to the seers, ‘Do not see any more visions!’ They say to the prophets, ‘Do not tell us messages about what is right! Tell us nice things, even if they are not true.
• Ezekiel 14:4You must speak to them. Say, “This is what the Almighty Lord says: One of these men who like to worships idols may want to ask me something. Those men allow their idols to cause them to do wicked things. So if one of them goes to a prophet to find out something, I will give him an answer! I will give him the answer that he deserves because of his many idols!
• Matthew 13:11Jesus replied, ‘God has let you know what these stories mean. You understand how God rules in the lives of his people. But these other people do not understand what the stories mean.
• John 3:20Everyone who does evil things hates the light. A person like that will not come to the light because he is afraid. He does not want the bad things that he has done to show clearly.
• John 5:44You like to praise each other. That makes you happy. But what about God himself? You do not try to do good things so that he will praise you. That is why you will never believe in me.
• John 12:42But even at that time, many of the Jewish leaders did believe in Jesus. But they were afraid of the Pharisees. So they did not tell people that they believed. They were afraid that the Pharisees would send them away from their meeting places.
• 1 Corinthians 3:1My Christian friends, I could not teach you as I would teach people who have God's Spirit. I had to teach you as people who belong only to this world. You were like little children who could not understand the message about Christ very well.
• Ephesians 4:14So then we will not be like children any more. Our minds will not become confused by strange ideas. We will not change what we believe, from one thing to another. Some people teach things that are not true. They do clever things to deceive people. But we will not agree with their false message.
• Hebrews 5:11We have a lot more to say to you about these things. But you are slow to understand things. As a result, it is difficult to explain any more to you now.
• 1 Timothy 2:4He wants to save all people. He wants everyone to know his message about what is true.
• 2 Timothy 2:25When people speak against God's true message, teach them carefully. Help them to understand what is right. Maybe God will change how they think so that they believe the true message.

Commentaries on 2 Timothy 3:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Ever learning - From their false teachers, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth, because that teaching never leads to the truth; for, although there was a form of godliness, which gave them a sort of authority to teach, yet, as they denied the power of godliness, they never could bring their votaries to the knowledge of the saving power of Christianity. There are many professors of Christianity still who answer the above description. They…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Ever learning - That is, these “silly women;” for so the Greek demands. The idea is, that they seeM to be disciples. They put themselves wholly under the care of these professedly religious teachers, but they never acquire the true knowledge of the way of salvation. And never able to come to the knowledge of the truth - They may learn many things, but the true nature of religion they do not learn. There are many such persons in the world, who, whatever…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-7The letters to Timothy and Titus consistently express concern about the impact of false teachers on households and women (Titus 1:11; see 1 Timothy 2:11–15; 3:4–5; 5:14–15). Whether or not these false teachers specifically targeted women, they were successful with some.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. Ever learning--some new point, for mere curiosity, to the disparagement of what they seemed to know before. the knowledge--Greek, "the perfect knowledge"; the only safeguard against further novelties. Gnosticism laid hold especially of the female sex [Estius, 1.13.3]: so Roman Jesuitism.Read the comment

Topics related to 2 Timothy 3:7

• Apostasy
• Blindness
• Doctrines
• Fellowship
• Minister, Christian
• Wicked (People)
• Women
• Worldliness

In the dictionaries

• Correction
• Creep
• Doctrine
• Godly
• Inspiration
• Reprobate
• Truth
• Unholy
• Wise
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Commentaries on 2 Timothy 3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings