 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 578 pages
...and apostacy of these 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.... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 648 pages
...What St. Peter speaks of Apostates, 2 Pet. ii. 21. is but too well applicable to the knowing sinner: It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known zV, to turn asideyrowt the. .'. commandment delivered unto... | |
 | John Newton - 1809 - 312 pages
...near unto death, to 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... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 414 pages
...from heaven." The 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."... | |
 | 1810 - 480 pages
...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 not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1810 - 272 pages
...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 not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.... | |
 | John Bevans - 1810 - 134 pages
...are again entangled therein, and overcome; the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21. For it had been better for them not to have known the -way of righteousness, than after they have known !•:, io turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 pages
...worship u ; or immediately before w or after these x, or other helps to prevent or remedy ning. Ver. 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.... | |
 | David Savile - 1810 - 440 pages
...again " entangled therein and overcome, the lat" ter end is worse with them than the be" ginning ; for it had been better for them " not to have known the way of righteous" ness, than after they have known it, to " turn from the holy commandment deli" vered unto... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 460 pages
...not forget thy commandments," Psalm cxix. 1?6. In answer to this, I thought I heard a voice saying, " 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,"... | |
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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... 
