...think of the awfulness, the ruin of drawing back unto perdition! It had been better for you not to have known the way of righteousness, than after you have known it, to turn aside from the holy commandment; remember your faults /his day. To your Bible, to your knees, in humble...

...how you hear, but also how you act after you have heard; for it would have been better for you not to have known the way of righteousness,- than, after you have known it, to turn from the commandment delivered unto you. Nor are you to expect that conscience will in future attend your summons,...

...overcome, your latter state will become worse than the former : for it would be belter for you not to have known the way of righteousness, than after you have known it, to turn back from the holy commandment which was delivered to you. (2 Peter, ii. 20.) — Let not, therefore,...