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NASB | 2 Timothy 3:7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Timothy 3:7 always learning and listening to anybody who will teach them, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. |
Subject: Does knowledge out weight truth |
Bible Note: Hi Lionstrong, I appreciate your thoughts and also can see where I could have been clearer in mine. My main focus is on knowing Him, the only true God, rather than facts and artifacts. The two verses ahead of your 2Timothy 3:16 reference talks about the things you have learned and become convinced of. Facts, per se, are not things that you become convinced of. The things that you become convinced of are the things about which the Lord has given you understanding. See 2Timothy 2:7 These are the things that lead to our obtaining salvation, verse 10. 2Tim 3:15 says that Timothy had known "from childhood the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus." My thought has been that we need more than facts and book knowledge; we need to be listening for God's leading and understanding. I think that 2Timothy speaks a lot about truth, and when I capitalized Truth in my first posting here, I was thinking of 1st Timothy 6:2-5. There it talks about principles and doctrines and agreement with the words of Christ and (Titus 1:1) the knowledge of the Truth which is according to godliness. Our learning should lead us to repentance 2Timothy 2:25 and to wisdom that leads to salvation and good works 2Timothy 3:15. |