Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Through

Bible References

Escaped

2 Peter 2:18
For, uttering arrogant words of vanity, they entice in the desires (lusts) of the flesh, by sensuality (lasciviousness), those who are just escaping from the ones who live in error.
2 Peter 1:4
He offered us his precious and exceedingly great promises. Through these you may become partakers of the divine nature. You will escape from the corruption that is in the lust-filled world.

Through

2 Peter 1:2
Grace to you and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord!

The latter

Numbers 24:20
He looked at Amalek and continued his discourse. He said: Amalek was the first of the nations but he will end in destruction.
Deuteronomy 32:29
They fail to see why they were defeated. They cannot understand what happened.
Philippians 3:19
Their end is destruction. Their god is their belly. Their glory is in their shame. They set their mind on earthly things.

General references

Genesis 24:6
Abraham answered: Make sure that you do not send my son back there!
Leviticus 14:43
If the mildew breaks out again in the house after the stones have been removed and the house has been scraped and plastered,
Deuteronomy 14:7
Do not eat of these that chew the cud, or among those that divide the hoof in two: the camel and the rabbit and the shaphan. Even though they chew the cud, they do not divide the hoof. They are unclean for you.
Jeremiah 34:11
Later they changed their minds and took back the men and women they had freed and made them their slaves again.
Ezekiel 33:18
If the righteous person turns from the right things that he has done and does evil, he will die because of it.
Matthew 7:27
The rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and battered the house and it fell with a great crash.
Luke 14:30
You started and could not finish,' they will say.
Luke 17:32
Remember Lot's wife!
1 Timothy 5:15
Some have already turned aside after Satan.