2 Peter 2:20-22

20 For if a after they have escaped the defilements of the world b through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome c the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For d it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from e the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The f dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”

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