2 Peter 2:20

If people manage to escape from the evil influence of the world by knowing the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and then get tangled up in sin again and are defeated, they are worse off than they were in the first place.

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In The King James Version

For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

In Context

19They promise them freedom, even though they themselves are slaves to depravity. “You are a slave to whatever conquers you.”

21It would have been better not to have known the right way of truth, than to have known it and then turn away from the sacred instructions they'd been given.

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Cross References

Leviticus 13:20The priest shall inspect it, and if it seems to be more than something on the surface, and if the hair there has turned white, the priest shall declare him unclean. It is a serious skin disease that has infected the boil.

Leviticus 14:43If the mold returns and affects the house again even after the stones have been removed and the house has been scraped and replastered,

Deuteronomy 32:29How I wish they were wise, so they could understand it; they would recognize what was going to happen to them.

Luke 11:24When an evil spirit leaves someone, it goes through the desert looking for a place to stay. When it doesn't find anywhere, it says, ‘I'll return to the house I left.’

Hebrews 6:4It's impossible for those who once understood and experienced God's heavenly gift—who shared in receiving the Holy Spirit,

2 Peter 1:2May you have ever more grace and peace as you grow in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 2:11-22

False Teachers. ( a. d. 67.) 10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. 11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. 12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; 13 And shall receive… Read the whole commentary →

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