2 Peter 2:19-22

English Standard Version

¹⁹ They promise them ^(A)freedom, ^(B)but they themselves are slaves^[a] of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. ²⁰ For if, ^(C)after they have escaped the defilements of the world ^(D)through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, ^(E)the last state has become worse for them than the first. ²¹ For ^(F)it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from ^(G)the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The ^(H)dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”