Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

2 Timothy 3:7

Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

KJV

πάντοτε μανθάνοντα καὶ μηδέποτε εἰς ἐπίγνωσιν ἀληθείας ἐλθεῖν δυνάμενα.

Greek NT

semper discentes, et numquam ad scientiam veritatis pervenientes.

Vulgate

ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

ASV

Ever learning, and never attaining to the knowledge of the truth.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

δύναμαι
dunamai
verb · 209×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μανθάνω
manthano
verb · 25×
μηδέποτε
medepote
adverb · 1×
πάντοτε
pantote
adverb · 41×
ἀλήθεια
aletheia
noun · 109×
ἐπίγνωσις
epignosis
noun · 20×
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
verb · 627×

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

There is but one author, and one end to both covenants. 1. All things therefore are of one and the same substance, that is, from one and the same God; as also the Lord says to the disciples Therefore every scribe, which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven, is like a man that is an householder, which brings forth out of his treasure things new and old. Matthew 13:52 He did …
Those pastors are to be heard to whom the apostles committed the Churches, possessing one and the same doctrine of salvation; the heretics, on the other hand, are to be avoided. We must think soberly with regard to the mysteries of the faith. 1. Now all these [heretics] are of much later date than the bishops to whom the apostles committed the Churches; which fact I have in the…
Chapter 1.—Of the Limits Which Must Be Put to the Necessity of Replying to an Adversary. If the feeble mind of man did not presume to resist the clear evidence of truth, but yielded its infirmity to wholesome doctrines, as to a health-giving medicine, until it obtained from God, by its faith and piety, the grace needed to heal it, they who have just ideas, and express them in s…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 3:1 — And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
  • 1Cor 3:12 — Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
  • 1Tim 1:7 — Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
  • 1Tim 2:4 — Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
  • 1Tim 2:4 — Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
  • 2Tim 2:25 — In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
  • 2Tim 2:25 — In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
  • 2Tim 4:3 — For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
  • Deut 29:4 — Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
  • Eph 4:14 — That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
  • Ezek 14:4 — Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before hi
  • Heb 5:11 — Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
  • Isa 28:10 — For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
  • Isa 30:10 — Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
  • John 3:20 — For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
  • John 5:44 — How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
  • John 8:32 — And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
  • John 12:42 — Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:
  • Matt 13:11 — He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
  • Prov 14:6 — A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.