2 Peter 2:20

American Standard Version (1901)

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.

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  • Heb 10:26-27 : 26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries.
  • Heb 6:4-8 : 4 For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, 6 and [then] fell away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. 7 For the land which hath drunk the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receiveth blessing from God: 8 but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and [whose] glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.
  • Deut 32:29 : 29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For, uttering great swelling [words] of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;
  • Luke 11:24-26 : 24 The unclean spirit when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and finding none, he saith, I will turn back unto my house whence I came out. 25 And when he is come, he findeth it swept and garnished. 26 Then goeth he, and taketh [to him] seven other spirits more evil than himself; and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first.
  • 2 Pet 1:2 : 2 Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;
  • 2 Pet 1:4 : 4 whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in that world by lust.
  • Matt 12:43-45 : 43 But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and findeth it not. 44 Then he saith, I will return into my house whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. 45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this evil generation.
  • Num 24:20 : 20 And he looked on Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; But his latter end shall come to destruction.

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  • 2 Pet 2:21-22
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    21For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

    22It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.

  • 2 Pet 2:18-19
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    18For, uttering great swelling [words] of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;

    19promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.

  • 2 Pet 3:17-18
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    17Ye therefore, beloved, knowing [these things] beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness.

    18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him [be] the glory both now and for ever. Amen.

  • Heb 6:4-6
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    4For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

    5and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,

    6and [then] fell away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

  • 2 Tim 3:13-14
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    13But evil men and impostors shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

    14But abide thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them.

  • 2 Pet 2:2-3
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    2And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of.

    3And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.

  • Jude 1:4-5
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    4For there are certain men crept in privily, [even] they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

    5Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

  • 2 Pet 1:8-11
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    8For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    9For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

    10Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble:

    11for thus shall be richly supplied unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Tim 2:26
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    26and they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him unto his will.

  • 2 Tim 3:5-7
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    5holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof: from these also turn away.

    6For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,

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

  • Jude 1:10-13
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    10But these rail at whatsoever things they know not: and what they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed.

    11Woe unto them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.

    12These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

    13Wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved for ever.

  • Gal 4:9
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    9but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?

  • 2 Pet 2:12-15
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    12But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed,

    13suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; [men] that count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings while they feast with you;

    14having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing;

    15forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the [son] of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;

  • Titus 1:15-16
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    15To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

    16They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

  • Eph 4:19
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    19who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

  • 2 Thess 2:10
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    10and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

  • 1 John 2:19
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    19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us.

  • Heb 10:26
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    26For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins,

  • 1 Tim 5:12
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    12having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.

  • 2 Pet 1:4
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    4whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in that world by lust.

  • Titus 3:11
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    11knowing that such a one is perverted, and sinneth, being self-condemned.

  • 2 Tim 2:17-19
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    17and their word will eat as doth a gangrene: or whom is Hymenaeus an Philetus;

    18men who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already, and overthrow the faith of some.

    19Howbeit the firm foundation of God standeth, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his: and, Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.

  • 1 Tim 1:6
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    6from which things some having swerved have turned aside unto vain talking;

  • Jude 1:18
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    18That they said to you, In the last time there shall be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.

  • 2 Tim 3:9
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    9But they shall proceed no further. For their folly shall be evident unto all men, as theirs also came to be.

  • Heb 2:3
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    3how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard;

  • 2 John 1:8
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    8Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.

  • Rom 6:21
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    21What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.