2 Peter 2:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: "The dog returns to his own vomit," and "the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire."

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  • Prov 26:11 : 11 As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.

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

    18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through wantonness, those who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

    19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.

    20For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.

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

  • Prov 26:11
    79%

    11As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.

  • Matt 7:6
    71%

    6Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

  • 2 Pet 2:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption;

    13And will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, reveling in their own deceptions while they banquet with you;

  • Isa 28:8
    69%

    8For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

  • 2 Pet 2:15-16
    2 verses
    69%

    15They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

    16But was rebuked for his iniquity; the dumb donkey speaking with a man's voice restrained the madness of the prophet.

  • Matt 8:32
    68%

    32And he said to them, Go. And when they had come out, they went into the herd of swine: and behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.

  • 2 Pet 2:2
    68%

    2And many will follow their pernicious ways; by whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

  • Mark 5:14
    68%

    14And those who fed the pigs fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.

  • Jude 1:10-11
    2 verses
    68%

    10But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.

    11Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

  • Isa 56:11
    67%

    11Yes, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his territory.

  • Prov 11:22
    67%

    22As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a lovely woman without discretion.

  • Isa 3:9
    67%

    9The look on their faces testifies against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • Ezek 34:19
    67%

    19And as for my flock, they eat what you have trodden with your feet; and they drink what you have fouled with your feet.

  • Luke 15:15-17
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    67%

    15And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

    16And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the pigs ate: and no one gave him anything.

    17And when he came to himself, he said, How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough to spare, and I perish with hunger!

  • 2 Tim 3:9
    66%

    9But they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifested to all, as theirs also was.

  • Titus 1:15-16
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    66%

    15To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.

    16They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.

  • Heb 6:6
    66%

    6If they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame.

  • 2 Tim 2:16-17
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    66%

    16But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness.

    17And their message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort,

  • Prov 1:31-32
    2 verses
    66%

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

    32For the turning away of the simple will slay them, and the prosperity of fools will destroy them.

  • Job 34:27
    66%

    27Because they turned back from Him and would not consider any of His ways.

  • Prov 28:10
    66%

    10Whoever causes the righteous to go astray in an evil way will fall into his own pit, but the upright shall have good things in possession.

  • Mark 5:16
    66%

    16And those who saw it told them how it happened to him who had been possessed with the demon, and also concerning the pigs.

  • Jer 8:5
    65%

    5Why then has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, they refuse to return.

  • Ps 59:6
    65%

    6They return at evening; they make a noise like a dog, and go around the city.

  • Jonah 2:8
    65%

    8Those who regard worthless idols forsake their own mercy.

  • Matt 8:30
    65%

    30And there was a good distance from them a herd of many swine feeding.

  • 2 Tim 2:26
    65%

    26and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.

  • Prov 26:27
    65%

    27Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and he who rolls a stone, it will roll back on him.

  • Job 20:15
    65%

    15He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God shall cast them out of his belly.

  • Luke 8:33
    65%

    33Then went the demons out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were drowned.

  • Prov 2:13
    65%

    13Who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness;

  • Lev 11:7
    65%

    7And the swine, though it divides the hoof, and is cloven-footed, yet 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; therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

  • Jer 2:19
    65%

    19Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord GOD of hosts.

  • 2 Pet 2:6
    65%

    6And turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemning them with an overthrow, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;

  • Ps 73:10
    65%

    10Therefore his people return here, and waters of a full cup are drained by them.

  • Prov 23:8
    65%

    8The morsel which you have eaten, you shall vomit up, and lose your sweet words.

  • Rom 1:28
    65%

    28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;