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2 Timothy 3:9 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be. "

2 Timothy 3:9

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7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

8 Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.

9 But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.

10 But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

11 persecutions, and sufferings—those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

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