 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 592 pages
...therein and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For 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. But it is happened unto them... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 304 pages
...therein and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For 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. But it is happened unto them... | |
 | Bible - 1808 - 480 pages
...overcome by them, the last state of such persons is worse 21 than the first. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to 22 turn away from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it hath happened to them... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1809 - 424 pages
...entangled, but overcome. And " their last state is worse than the first." It is added, " It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness,...had known it, to turn from the holy commandment." They knew the way of righteousness, and yet turned from it. There are those, who know their Lord's... | |
 | William Romaine - Faith - 1809 - 220 pages
...but in works they deny him— not such as many professors attain, for whom it had been better not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they had known it, to turn from it. These fathers knew Christ by the inward teaching of his word and spirit, whereby he made himself... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 578 pages
...elevated break-neck professors, see that most dreadful place, 2 Pet. ii. 21. For 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. Is not the wrath of God certainly... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1809 - 414 pages
...Apostle Peter, to guard christians against apostasy, holds up the same warning — " 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 to them." Remarkable are the words of our... | |
 | John Newton - Theology - 1809 - 312 pages
...restore them to their right minds, and to recover them to himself. Otherwise, " 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." OMICRONON DREAMING. DEAR.... | |
 | Christianity - 1809 - 220 pages
...beginning, for it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than offer Ihey had known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them, ii. Peter, chap, xviii. 20,21. In the beginning of the foregoing chapter the apostle speaks of some,... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1809 - 366 pages
...vi. 16. (m) 1 Pet. v. 9. (p) Heb. xl. 34. ticc is preparing for them ; and it would hare been letter for them, not to have known the Way of Righteousness, than after having known it, to turn aside from the holy Commandment (u). But I would, by Divine Grace, -hope better... | |
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For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them... 
