2Tim 3:7 Cross References

2 Timothy 3:7

7: Such women are forever following new teachings, but they never understand the truth.

For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to right teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever they want to hear.
They will reject the truth and follow strange myths.

Then we will no longer be like children, forever changing our minds about what we believe because someone has told us something different or because someone has cleverly lied to us and made the lie sound like the truth.

Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn't talk to you as I would to mature Christians. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in the Christian life.
I had to feed you with milk and not with solid food, because you couldn't handle anything stronger. And you still aren't ready,
for you are still controlled by your own sinful desires. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other. Doesn't that prove you are controlled by your own desires? You are acting like people who don't belong to the Lord.
When one of you says, "I am a follower of Paul," and another says, "I prefer Apollos," aren't you acting like those who are not Christians?

They should gently teach those who oppose the truth. Perhaps God will change those people's hearts, and they will believe the truth.

They tell the prophets, "Shut up! We don't want any more of your reports." They say, "Don't tell us the truth. Tell us nice things. Tell us lies.
Forget all this gloom. We have heard more than enough about your `Holy One of Israel.' We are tired of listening to what he has to say."

A mocker seeks wisdom and never finds it, but knowledge comes easily to those with understanding.

Then he explained to them, "You have been permitted to understand the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven, but others have not.

There is so much more we would like to say about this. But you don't seem to listen, so it's hard to make you understand.

No wonder you can't believe! For you gladly honor each other, but you don't care about the honor that comes from God alone.

They hate the light because they want to sin in the darkness. They stay away from the light for fear their sins will be exposed and they will be punished.
But those who do what is right come to the light gladly, so everyone can see that they are doing what God wants."

Many people, including some of the Jewish leaders, believed in him. But they wouldn't admit it to anyone because of their fear that the Pharisees would expel them from the synagogue.
For they loved human praise more than the praise of God.

But to this day the LORD has not given you minds that understand, nor eyes that see, nor ears that hear!

Give them this message from the Sovereign LORD: I, the LORD, will punish the people of Israel who set up idols in their hearts so they fall into sin and then come to a prophet asking for help.
I will do this to capture the minds and hearts of all my people who have turned from me to worship their detestable idols.
"Therefore, give the people of Israel this message from the Sovereign LORD: Repent and turn away from your idols, and stop all your loathsome practices.
I, the LORD, will punish all those, both Israelites and foreigners, who reject me and set up idols in their hearts so they fall into sin, and who then come to a prophet asking for my advice.
I will turn against such people and make a terrible example of them, destroying them. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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