2 Peter 2:22
They are illustrations of this true proverb:“A dog returns to its own vomit,” and“A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire.”
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- Prov 26:11 : 11 Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
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- 2 Pet 2:18-214 verses81%
18For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.
19Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.
20For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.
21For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them.
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11Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
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6Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces.
- 2 Pet 2:12-132 verses70%
12But these men, like irrational animals– creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed– do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed,
13suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways. By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight, they are stains and blemishes, indulging in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you.
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8Indeed, all the tables are covered with vomit, with filth, leaving no clean place.
- 2 Pet 2:15-162 verses69%
15By forsaking the right path they have gone astray, because they followed the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,
16yet was rebuked for his own transgression(a dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet’s madness).
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32And he said,“Go!” So they came out and went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep slope into the lake and drowned in the water.
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2And many will follow their debauched lifestyles. Because of these false teachers, the way of truth will be slandered.
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14Now the herdsmen ran off and spread the news in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.
- Jude 1:10-112 verses68%
10But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.
11Woe to them! For they have traveled down Cain’s path, and because of greed have abandoned themselves to Balaam’s error; hence, they will certainly perish in Korah’s rebellion.
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11The dogs have big appetites; they are never full. They are shepherds who have no understanding; they all go their own way, each one looking for monetary gain.
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22Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who rejects discretion.
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9The look on their faces testifies to their guilt; like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. Woe to them! For they bring disaster on themselves.
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19As for my sheep, they must eat what you trampled with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet!
- Luke 15:15-173 verses67%
15So he went and worked for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.
16He was longing to eat the carob pods 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 workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!
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9But they will not go much further, for their foolishness will be obvious to everyone, just like it was with Jannes and Jambres.
- Titus 1:15-162 verses66%
15All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
16They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
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6and then have committed apostasy, to renew them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again and holding him up to contempt.
- 2 Tim 2:16-172 verses66%
16But avoid profane chatter, because those occupied with it will stray further and further into ungodliness,
17and their message will spread its infection like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are in this group.
- Prov 1:31-322 verses66%
31Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel.
32For the waywardness of the simpletons will kill them, and the careless ease of fools will destroy them.
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27because they have turned away from following him, and have not understood any of his ways,
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10The one who leads the upright astray in an evil way will himself fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.
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16Those who had seen what had happened to the demon-possessed man reported it, and they also told about the pigs.
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5Why, then, do these people of Jerusalem continually turn away from me in apostasy? They hold fast to their deception. They refuse to turn back to me.
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6They return in the evening; they growl like a dog and prowl around outside the city.
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8Those who worship worthless idols forfeit the mercy that could be theirs.
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30A large herd of pigs was feeding some distance from them.
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26and they will come to their senses and escape the devil’s trap where they are held captive to do his will.
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27The one who digs a pit will fall into it; the one who rolls a stone– it will come back on him.
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15The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.
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33So the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd of pigs rushed down the steep slope into the lake and drowned.
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13who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways,
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7The pig is unclean to you because its hoof is divided(the hoof is completely split in two), even though it does not chew the cud.
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9The Best of Times, the Worst of Times They have sunk deep into corruption as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their wrongdoing. He will repay them for their sins.
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19Your own wickedness will bring about your punishment. Your unfaithful acts will bring down discipline on you. Know, then, and realize how utterly harmful it was for you to reject me, the LORD your God, to show no respect for me,” says the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
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6and if he turned to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah when he condemned them to destruction, having appointed them to serve as an example to future generations of the ungodly,
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10Therefore they have more than enough food to eat, and even suck up the water of the sea.
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8you will vomit up the little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words.
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28And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.