2 Peter 2:20-22

Christian Standard Bible

²⁰ For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of the Lord^[a] and Savior Jesus Christ,^(A) they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.^{(B) 21} For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness^(C) than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command^(D) delivered^(E) to them.^{(F) 22} It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit,^[b](G) and, “A washed sow returns to wallowing in the mud.”