New King James Version
2 Timothy 3:7
7always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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 Living Translation (NLT)(Such women are forever following new teachings, but they are never able to understand the truth.)
Context of 2 Timothy 3:7
5having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! 6For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; 9but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.
Read all of 2 Timothy 32 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 4:3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;
- Deuteronomy 29:4Yet the Lord has not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this very day.
- Proverbs 14:6A scoffer seeks wisdom and does not find it, But knowledge is easy to him who understands.
- Isaiah 30:10Who say to the seers, “Do not see,” And to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us right things; Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.
- Ezekiel 14:4“Therefore speak to them, and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Everyone of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, and puts before him what causes him to stumble into iniquity, and then comes to the prophet, I the Lord will answer him who comes, according to the multitude of his idols,
- Matthew 13:11He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
- John 3:20For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
- John 5:44How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from the only God?
- John 12:42Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue;
- 1 Corinthians 3:1And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ.
- Ephesians 4:14that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,
- Hebrews 5:11of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
- 1 Timothy 2:4who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
- 2 Timothy 2:25in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth,
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
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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
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