2 Peter 2:22

World English Bible (2000)

But 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."

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

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  • 2 Pet 2:18-21
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    81%

    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.

    20For 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.

    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.

  • Prov 26:11
    79%

    11As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.

  • Matt 7:6
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    6"Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

  • 2 Pet 2:12-13
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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,

    13receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

  • Isa 28:8
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    8For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness.

  • 2 Pet 2:15-16
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    15forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

    16but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.

  • Matt 8:32
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    32He said to them, "Go!" They came out, and went into the herd of pigs: and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea, and died in the water.

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

  • Mark 5:14
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    14Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country. The people came to see what it was that had happened.

  • Jude 1:10-11
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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.

  • Isa 56:11
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    11Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

  • Prov 11:22
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    22Like a gold ring in a pig's snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

  • Ezek 34:19
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    19As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.

  • Luke 15:15-17
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    15He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

    16He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

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

  • 2 Tim 3:9
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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.

  • 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; 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.

  • Heb 6:6
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    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 2:16-17
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    16But shun empty chatter, for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

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

  • Prov 1:31-32
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    31Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

    32For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

  • Job 34:27
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    27because they turned aside from following him, and wouldn't pay attention to any of his ways,

  • Prov 28:10
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    10Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.

  • Mark 5:16
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    16Those who saw it declared to them how it happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs.

  • Jer 8:5
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    5Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

  • Ps 59:6
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    6They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.

  • Jonah 2:8
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    8Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

  • Matt 8:30
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    30Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them.

  • 2 Tim 2:26
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    26and they may recover themselves out of the devil's snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

  • Prov 26:27
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    27Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.

  • Job 20:15
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    15He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

  • Luke 8:33
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    33The demons came out from the man, and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.

  • Prov 2:13
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    13who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

  • Lev 11:7
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    7The pig, because he has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn't chew the cud, he is unclean to you.

  • Hos 9:9
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    9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.

  • Jer 2:19
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    19"Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you," says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

  • 2 Pet 2:6
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    6and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;

  • Ps 73:10
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    10Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.

  • Prov 23:8
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    8The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.

  • Rom 1:28
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    28Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;