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Wednesday, June 18th, 2025
the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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Simplified Cowboy Version

2 Timothy 3:7

Vulnerable women will believe any new teaching that promises them a better life than the one they have. They will be unable to see the truth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Apostasy;   Blindness;   Doctrines;   Fellowship;   Minister, Christian;   Wicked (People);   Women;   Worldliness;   Scofield Reference Index - Apostasy;   Thompson Chain Reference - Discernment-Dullness;   Dullness;   Fleeting Impressions;   Ignorance;   Impressions, Fleeting;   Knowledge-Ignorance;   The Topic Concordance - Corruption;   Folly;   Knowledge;   Last Days;   Manifestation;   Resistance;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Women;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Know, Knowledge;   Magic;   Timothy, First and Second, Theology of;   Truth;   Woman;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Jesus Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Truth;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Divination;   Games;   Idol;   Miracles;   Timothy, the First Epistle to;   Timothy, the Second Epistle to;   Tyre;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Titus, Epistle to;   2 Thessalonians;   2 Timothy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Gnosticism;   Ignorance;   Timothy and Titus Epistles to;   Truth;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Perilous Times;   Prophets, the;   48 To Know, Perceive, Understand;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Perfect;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for April 9;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
King James Version (1611)
Euer learning, and neuer able to come to the knowledge of the trueth.
King James Version
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
English Standard Version
always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
New American Standard Bible
always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
New Century Version
These women are always learning new teachings, but they are never able to understand the truth fully.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Legacy Standard Bible
always learning and never able to come to the full knowledge of the truth.
Berean Standard Bible
always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
Contemporary English Version
These women always want to learn something new, but they never can discover the truth.
Complete Jewish Bible
who are always learning but never able to come to full knowledge of the truth.
Darby Translation
always learning, and never able to come to [the] knowledge of [the] truth.
Easy-to-Read Version
These women always want to learn something new, but they are never able to fully understand the truth.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Which women are euer learning, and are neuer able to come to the acknowledging of the trueth.
George Lamsa Translation
Ever striving to learn, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth,
Good News Translation
women who are always trying to learn but who can never come to know the truth.
Lexham English Bible
always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
Literal Translation
always learning, but never being able to come to a full knowledge of the truth.
Amplified Bible
always learning and listening to anybody who will teach them, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
American Standard Version
ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Bible in Basic English
Ever learning, and never coming to the knowledge of what is true.
Hebrew Names Version
always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
International Standard Version
These women are always studying but are never able to arrive at a full knowledge of the truth.1 Timothy 2:4;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
who, in all time learning, never to the knowledge of the truth are able to come.
Murdock Translation
who are always learning, and can never come to the knowledge of the truth.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Euer learnyng, and neuer able to come vnto the knowledge of the trueth.
English Revised Version
ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
World English Bible
always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Weymouth's New Testament
and are always learning something new, and yet are never able to arrive at real knowledge of the truth.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and neuere perfitli comynge to the science of treuthe.
Update Bible Version
ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Webster's Bible Translation
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
New English Translation
Such women are always seeking instruction, yet never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
New King James Version
always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
New Living Translation
(Such women are forever following new teachings, but they are never able to understand the truth.)
New Life Bible
Such women are always listening to new teaching. But they are never able to understand the truth.
New Revised Standard
who are always being instructed and can never arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ever learning and never, unto a personal knowledge of truth, able to come;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Ever learning, and never attaining to the knowledge of the truth.
Revised Standard Version
who will listen to anybody and can never arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
ever learnynge and never able to come vnto the knowledge of the trueth.
Young's Literal Translation
always learning, and never to a knowledge of truth able to come,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
euer lernynge, and are neuer able to come vnto the knowlege of the trueth.
Mace New Testament (1729)
and by lending an assiduous ear to such lessons, render it impossible they should ever be acquainted with the truth.

Contextual Overview

1Know this, Timothy! When the end is near, the trail will be very difficult. 2People's priorities will only be money and themselves. They will be arrogant and proud. Not only will they scoff at God, but their parents as well. They won't have a grateful bone in their body. Nothing will be sacred. 3Their saddlebags will be filled with hate and unforgiveness. They'll be slaves to lust and slander. Cruelty will mark their trail and they will hate anything that is good. 4They'll stab their friends in the back for a buck and puff their chests out in pride for what they've done. Their pleasure will be other's pain and they will not know God. 5They will act religious, but deny the power that could change their lives into something special. Steer clear of cowboys like that. 6These cowboys are really snakes that slither into vulnerable women's homes with empty promises and lustful desires. 7Vulnerable women will believe any new teaching that promises them a better life than the one they have. They will be unable to see the truth. 8These wannabe cowboys are counterfeits. They are like Jannes and Jambres who went up against Moses. 9But they won't get away with their falsehoods for long. Every fool will one day get what's coming to them and others will see them for who they really are.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

learning: 2 Timothy 4:3, 2 Timothy 4:4, Deuteronomy 29:4, Proverbs 14:6, Isaiah 30:10, Isaiah 30:11, Ezekiel 14:4-10, Matthew 13:11, John 3:20, John 3:21, John 5:44, John 12:42, John 12:43, 1 Corinthians 3:1-4, Ephesians 4:14, Hebrews 5:11

never: 1 Timothy 2:4

the knowledge: 2 Timothy 2:25

Reciprocal: Isaiah 28:10 - For precept Amos 8:12 - shall run John 8:32 - ye shall 1 Corinthians 3:12 - wood 1 Timothy 1:7 - understanding

Cross-References

Luke 16:23
Coincidentally, the rich guy died at the same time, but he ended up in hell. While his flesh burned, he saw the beggar Lazarus sitting with Abraham in heaven.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ever learning,.... Some new notion and practice or another: and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth; partly because of the teachers, which they heap up to themselves, who are unapt to teach, are blind and ignorant guides, and know not the truth, but are enemies to it, and resist it; and partly because of themselves, the sins they are laden, and the lusts they are led away with, which hinder them from coming to the knowledge of the truth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ever 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 attention they may pay to religion, never understand its nature. Many obtain much speculative acquaintance with the “doctrines” of Christianity, but never become savingly acquainted with the system; many study the constitution and government of the church, but remain strangers to practical piety; many become familiar with the various philosophical theories of religion, but never become truly acquainted with what religion is; and many embrace visionary theories, who never show that they are influenced by the spirit of the gospel. Nothing is more common than for persons to be very busy and active in religion, and even to “learn” many things about it, who still remain strangers to the saving power of the gospel.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 7. Ever 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 hear, repeatedly hear, it may be, good sermons; but, as they seldom meditate on what they hear, they derive little profit from the ordinances of God. They have no more grace now than they had several years ago, though hearing all the while, and perhaps not wickedly departing from the Lord. They do not meditate, they do not think, they do not reduce what they hear to practice; therefore, even under the preaching of an apostle, they could not become wise to salvation.


 
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