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ΠΕΤΡΟΥ Β΄ 2:21 Greek NT: Nestle 1904
κρεῖττον γὰρ ἦν αὐτοῖς μὴ ἐπεγνωκέναι τὴν ὁδὸν τῆς δικαιοσύνης, ἢ ἐπιγνοῦσιν ὑποστρέψαι ἐκ τῆς παραδοθείσης αὐτοῖς ἁγίας ἐντολῆς.ΠΕΤΡΟΥ Β΄ 2:21 Greek NT: Westcott and Hort 1881
κρεῖττον γὰρ ἦν αὐτοῖς μὴ ἐπεγνωκέναι τὴν ὁδὸν τῆς δικαιοσύνης ἢ ἐπιγνοῦσιν ὑποστρέψαι ἐκ τῆς παραδοθείσης αὐτοῖς ἁγίας ἐντολῆς·
ΠΕΤΡΟΥ Β΄ 2:21 Greek NT: Westcott and Hort / [NA27 and UBS4 variants]
κρεῖττον γὰρ ἦν αὐτοῖς μὴ ἐπεγνωκέναι τὴν ὁδὸν τῆς δικαιοσύνης ἢ ἐπιγνοῦσιν ὑποστρέψαι ἐκ τῆς παραδοθείσης αὐτοῖς ἁγίας ἐντολῆς·
ΠΕΤΡΟΥ Β΄ 2:21 Greek NT: RP Byzantine Majority Text 2005
Κρεῖττον γὰρ ἦν αὐτοῖς μὴ ἐπεγνωκέναι τὴν ὁδὸν τῆς δικαιοσύνης, ἢ ἐπιγνοῦσιν ἐπιστρέψαι ἐκ τῆς παραδοθείσης αὐτοῖς ἁγίας ἐντολῆς.
ΠΕΤΡΟΥ Β΄ 2:21 Greek NT: Greek Orthodox Church
κρεῖττον γὰρ ἦν αὐτοῖς μὴ ἐπεγνωκέναι τὴν ὁδὸν τῆς δικαιοσύνης ἢ ἐπιγνοῦσιν ὑποστρέψαι ἐκ τῆς παραδοθείσης αὐτοῖς ἁγίας ἐντολῆς.
ΠΕΤΡΟΥ Β΄ 2:21 Greek NT: Tischendorf 8th Edition
κρεῖσσον γάρ εἰμί αὐτός μή ἐπιγινώσκω ὁ ὁδός ὁ δικαιοσύνη ἤ ἐπιγινώσκω ὑποστρέφω ἐκ ὁ παραδίδωμι αὐτός ἅγιος ἐντολή
ΠΕΤΡΟΥ Β΄ 2:21 Greek NT: Scrivener's Textus Receptus 1894
κρεῖττον γὰρ ἦν αὐτοῖς μὴ ἐπεγνωκέναι τὴν ὁδὸν τῆς δικαιοσύνης, ἢ ἐπιγνοῦσιν ἐπιστρέψαι ἐκ τῆς παραδοθείσης αὐτοῖς ἁγίας ἐντολῆς.
ΠΕΤΡΟΥ Β΄ 2:21 Greek NT: Stephanus Textus Receptus 1550
κρεῖττον γὰρ ἦν αὐτοῖς μὴ ἐπεγνωκέναι τὴν ὁδὸν τῆς δικαιοσύνης ἢ ἐπιγνοῦσιν ἐπιστρέψαι ἐκ τῆς παραδοθείσης αὐτοῖς ἁγίας ἐντολῆς
Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them.
King James BibleFor it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known
it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Holman Christian Standard BibleFor it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them.
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it had.
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the way.
Proverbs 12:28 In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there …
Proverbs 16:31 The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Matthew 21:32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you believed …
to turn.
Psalm 36:3,4 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has left off to …
Psalm 125:5 As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead …
Ezekiel 3:20 Again, When a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and …
Ezekiel 18:24 But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits …
Ezekiel 23:13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
Zephaniah 1:6 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have …
holy.
Romans 7:12 Why the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
1 Thessalonians 4:2 For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
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