Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on 2 Timothy 3:9 in English Standard Version "But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men." Ex 7:12 For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. Ex 8:18 The magicians tried by their secret arts to produce gnats, but they could not. So there were gnats on man and beast. Ex 9:11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils came upon the magicians and upon all the Egyptians.