2 Peter 2:22

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Of them the true proverb has come true: "A dog returns to its own vomit," and, "A sow that is washed returns to wallowing in the mud."

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  • Prov 26:11 : 11 Like a dog returning to its vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.

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  • 2 Pet 2:18-21
    4 verses
    81%

    18For they utter arrogant, empty words and entice those who are barely escaping from others living in error, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh and by debauchery.

    19They promise freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption, for a person is a slave to whatever has mastered them.

    20For if, after escaping the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

    21For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

  • Prov 26:11
    79%

    11Like a dog returning to its vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.

  • Matt 7:6
    71%

    6Do not give what is holy to dogs, nor cast your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to tear you to pieces.

  • 2 Pet 2:12-13
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    70%

    12These people, however, are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed. They speak abusively about things they do not understand, and in their destruction, they too will be destroyed.

    13They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. They consider it a pleasure to indulge in carousing during the day. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you.

  • Isa 28:8
    69%

    8All the tables are full of vomit and filth; there is no clean place left.

  • 2 Pet 2:15-16
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    69%

    15They have abandoned the straight way and gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.

    16But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey—a beast without speech—that spoke with a man's voice and restrained the prophet's madness.

  • Matt 8:32
    68%

    32He said to them, 'Go!' So they came out and went into the herd of pigs. Suddenly, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the waters.

  • 2 Pet 2:2
    68%

    2Many will follow their destructive ways, and because of them, the way of truth will be blasphemed.

  • Mark 5:14
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    14Those tending the pigs ran away and reported it in the town and the countryside. The people went out to see what had happened.

  • Jude 1:10-11
    2 verses
    68%

    10These people speak abusively about what they do not understand, and what they do understand by instinct—like unreasoning animals—these are the very things that destroy them.

    11Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, rushed headlong for profit into Balaam’s error, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

  • Isa 56:11
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    11Yet the dogs are greedy; they never have enough. They are shepherds who lack understanding; all of them turn to their own way, each seeking his own gain from every quarter.

  • Prov 11:22
    67%

    22Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

  • Isa 3:9
    67%

    9The look on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom, they openly declare their sin; they do not try to conceal it. Woe to them! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

  • Ezek 34:19
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    19Must My flock feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

  • Luke 15:15-17
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    67%

    15So he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

    16He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

    17But when he came to his senses, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but here I am dying from hunger!

  • 2 Tim 3:9
    66%

    9But they will not get very far because their folly will be clear to everyone, just as the folly of Jannes and Jambres became evident.

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

    16They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

  • Heb 6:6
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    6if they fall away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God again for themselves and subjecting Him to public disgrace.

  • 2 Tim 2:16-17
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    16Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly.

    17Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

  • Prov 1:31-32
    2 verses
    66%

    31Therefore they will eat the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own schemes.

    32For the turning away of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

  • Job 34:27
    66%

    27Because they turned away from following Him and did not regard any of His ways,

  • Prov 28:10
    66%

    10Whoever leads the upright along an evil path will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.

  • Mark 5:16
    66%

    16Those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and about the pigs.

  • Jer 8:5
    65%

    5Why then has this people, Jerusalem, turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold tightly to deceit; they refuse to return.

  • Ps 59:6
    65%

    6You, LORD God of Hosts, God of Israel, rise to punish all the nations. Do not show mercy to the treacherous, Selah.

  • Jonah 2:8
    65%

    8As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD, and my prayer rose to You, to Your holy temple.

  • Matt 8:30
    65%

    30A large herd of pigs was feeding at some distance from them.

  • 2 Tim 2:26
    65%

    26Then they may come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.

  • Prov 26:27
    65%

    27Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and the one who rolls a stone—it will come back upon them.

  • Job 20:15
    65%

    15He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God drives it out of his stomach.

  • Luke 8:33
    65%

    33When the demons came out of the man, they went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned.

  • Prov 2:13
    65%

    13from those who abandon the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

  • Lev 11:7
    65%

    7And the pig, though it has a divided hoof, completely split, it does not chew the cud; it is unclean to you.

  • Hos 9:9
    65%

    9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins.

  • Jer 2:19
    65%

    19Your own wickedness will discipline you; your backslidings will rebuke you. Consider and see how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of me,” declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty.

  • 2 Pet 2:6
    65%

    6and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly,

  • Ps 73:10
    65%

    10Therefore His people turn to them and drink up waters in abundance.

  • Prov 23:8
    65%

    8You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

  • Rom 1:28
    65%

    28And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.