2 Peter 2:22

This proverb has come true for them: “The dog has returned to its own vomit, and the washed pig has gone back to rolling in the mud.”

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In The King James Version

But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

In Context

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 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,

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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