2 Peter 2:22
It 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.
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- Prov 26:11 : 11 As a dog that returneth to his vomit, [So is] a fool that repeateth his folly.
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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;
19 promising 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.
20 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.
21 For 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.
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11 As a dog that returneth to his vomit, [So is] a fool that repeateth his folly.
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6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the swine, lest haply they trample them under their feet, and turn and rend you.
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12 But 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,
13 suffering 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;
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8 For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean] .
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15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the [son] of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;
16 but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb ass spake with man's voice and stayed the madness of the prophet.
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32 And he said unto them, Go. And they came out, and went into the swine: and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep into the sea, and perished in the waters.
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2 And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of.
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14 And they that fed them fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they came to see what it was that had come to pass.
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10 But these rail at whatsoever things they know not: and what they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed.
11 Woe 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.
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11 Yea, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds that cannot understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
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22 [ As] a ring of gold in a swine's snout, [So is] a fair woman that is without discretion.
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9 The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have done evil unto themselves.
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19 And as for my sheep, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.
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15 And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
17 But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger!
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9 But they shall proceed no further. For their folly shall be evident unto all men, as theirs also came to be.
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15 To 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.
16 They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
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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.
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16 But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness,
17 and their word will eat as doth a gangrene: or whom is Hymenaeus an Philetus;
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31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices.
32 For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.
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27 Because they turned aside from following him, And would not have regard in any of his ways:
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10 Whoso causeth the upright to go astray in an evil way, He shall fall himself into his own pit; But the perfect shall inherit good.
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16 And they that saw it declared unto them how it befell him that was possessed with demons, and concerning the swine.
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5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
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6 They return at evening, they howl like a dog, And go round about the city.
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8 They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.
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30 Now there was afar off from them a herd of many swine feeding.
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26 and they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him unto his will.
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27 Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; And he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him.
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15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his belly.
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33 And the demons came out from the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd rushed down the steep into the lake, and were drowned.
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13 Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;
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7 And the swine, because he parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you.
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9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
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19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
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6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example unto those that should live ungodly;
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10 Therefore his people return hither: And waters of a full [cup] are drained by them.
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8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words.
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28 And even as they refused to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;