2 Peter 2:20

World English Bible (2000)

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

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  • Heb 10:26-27 : 26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
  • Heb 6:4-8 : 4 For concerning 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 to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame. 7 For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God; 8 but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about 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 emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
  • Luke 11:24-26 : 24 The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, 'I will turn back to my house from which I came out.' 25 When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order. 26 Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes 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 by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
  • Matt 12:43-45 : 43 But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn't find it. 44 Then he says, 'I will return into my house from which I came out,' and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. 45 Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation."
  • Num 24:20 : 20 He looked at 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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    21For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

    22But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire."

  • 2 Pet 2:18-19
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    18For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

    19promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

  • 2 Pet 3:17-18
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    17You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

    18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

  • Heb 6:4-6
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    4For concerning 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 to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

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

    14But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

  • 2 Pet 2:2-3
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    2Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

    3In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

  • Jude 1:4-5
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    4For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

    5Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn't believe.

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    8For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

    10Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

    11For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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    26and they may recover themselves out of the devil's snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

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

    6For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

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

  • Jude 1:10-13
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    10But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they are destroyed in these things.

    11Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah's rebellion.

    12These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who 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 has been reserved forever.

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    12But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

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    14having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

    15forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

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    15To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who 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, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

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    19who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

  • 2 Thess 2:10
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    10and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive 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 didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

  • Heb 10:26
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    26For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains 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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    4by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

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    11knowing that such a one is perverted, and sins, being self-condemned.

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    17and their word will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

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

    19However God's firm foundation stands, having this seal, "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness."

  • 1 Tim 1:6
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    6from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;

  • Jude 1:18
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    18They said to you that "In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts."

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    9But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.

  • Heb 2:3
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    3how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation--which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;

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    8Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

  • Rom 6:21
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    21What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.