20 People can know our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and escape the world’s filth. But if they get involved in this filth again and give in to it, they are worse off than they were before.
21 It would have been better for them never to have known the way of life that God approves of than to know it and turn their backs on the holy life God told them to live.
22 These proverbs have come true for them: “A dog goes back to its vomit,” and “A sow that has been washed goes back to roll around in the mud.”
PROVERBS 26:11-12
11 As a dog goes back to its vomit, so a fool repeats his stupidity.
12 Have you met a person who thinks he is wise? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
2 PETER 2:20-22 & PROVERBS 26:11-12 THE MESSAGE
20-22 If they’ve escaped from the slum of sin by experiencing our Master and Savior, Jesus Christ, and then slid back into that same old life again, they’re worse than if they had never left. Better not to have started out on the straight road to God than to start out and then turn back, repudiating the experience and the holy command. They prove the point of the proverbs, “A dog goes back to its own vomit” and “A scrubbed-up pig heads for the mud.”
PROVERBS 26:11-12
11 As a dog eats its own vomit, so fools recycle silliness.
12 See that man who thinks he’s so smart? You can expect far more from a fool than from him.
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