always learning and never able to (A)arrive at a knowledge of the truth.

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always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.(A)

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(A)For the time is coming when people will not endure (B)sound[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and (C)will turn away from listening to the truth and (D)wander off into myths.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Timothy 4:3 Or healthy

For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine.(A) Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.(B) They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.(C)

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14 so that we may no longer be children, (A)tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in (B)deceitful schemes.

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14 Then we will no longer be infants,(A) tossed back and forth by the waves,(B) and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming.(C)

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Warning Against Apostasy

11 About this we have much to say, and it is (A)hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

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Warning Against Falling Away(A)

11 We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand.

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25 correcting his opponents (A)with gentleness. God (B)may perhaps grant them repentance (C)leading to a knowledge of the truth,

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25 Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth,(A)

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who desires (A)all people to be saved and (B)to come to (C)the knowledge of the truth.

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who wants(A) all people(B) to be saved(C) and to come to a knowledge of the truth.(D)

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Divisions in the Church

But I, brothers,[a] could not address you as (A)spiritual people, but as (B)people of the flesh, as (C)infants in Christ. (D)I fed you with milk, not solid food, for (E)you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, for you are still of the flesh. For while there is (F)jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? For (G)when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” (H)are you not being merely human?

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  1. 1 Corinthians 3:1 Or brothers and sisters

The Church and Its Leaders

Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit(A) but as people who are still worldly(B)—mere infants(C) in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food,(D) for you were not yet ready for it.(E) Indeed, you are still not ready. You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling(F) among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans? For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,”(G) are you not mere human beings?

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44 How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and (A)do not seek the glory that comes from (B)the only God?

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44 How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God[a]?(A)

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  1. John 5:44 Some early manuscripts the Only One

(A)A scoffer seeks wisdom (B)in vain,
    but (C)knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.

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The mocker seeks wisdom and finds none,
    but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.(A)

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20 (A)For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, (B)lest his works should be exposed. 21 But whoever (C)does what is true (D)comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

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20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.(A) 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

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11 And he answered them, (A)“To you it has been given to know (B)the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

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11 He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven(A) has been given to you,(B) but not to them.

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10 (A)who say to (B)the seers, “Do not see,”
    and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right;
speak to us (C)smooth things,
    prophesy illusions,
11 leave the way, turn aside from the path,
    let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”

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10 They say to the seers,(A)
    “See no more visions(B)!”
and to the prophets,
    “Give us no more visions of what is right!
Tell us pleasant things,(C)
    prophesy illusions.(D)
11 Leave this way,(E)
    get off this path,
and stop confronting(F) us
    with the Holy One(G) of Israel!”

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42 Nevertheless, (A)many even of the authorities believed in him, but (B)for fear of the Pharisees they did not (C)confess it, so that they would not be (D)put out of the synagogue; 43 (E)for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.

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42 Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him.(A) But because of the Pharisees(B) they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue;(C) 43 for they loved human praise(D) more than praise from God.(E)

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