2 Peter 2:20

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

2 Peter 1:2

Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

2 Peter 2:18

For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,

Hebrews 10:26-27

For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

Numbers 24:20

And he looked at Amalek and took up his discourse and said,
“Amalek was the first of the nations,
But his end shall be destruction.”

Deuteronomy 32:29

Would that they were wise, that they understood this,
That they would discern their future!

Matthew 12:43-45

Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it.

Luke 11:24-26

When the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding any, it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’

Philippians 3:19

whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.

Hebrews 6:4-8

For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

2 Peter 1:4

For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.

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 speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,
2 Peter 1:4
For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.

Through

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

The latter

Numbers 24:20
And he looked at Amalek and took up his discourse and said,
“Amalek was the first of the nations,
But his end shall be destruction.”
Deuteronomy 32:29
Would that they were wise, that they understood this,
That they would discern their future!
Philippians 3:19
whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.

General references

Genesis 24:6
Then Abraham said to him, “Beware that you do not take my son back there!
Leviticus 14:43
“If, however, the mark breaks out again in the house after he has torn out the stones and scraped the house, and after it has been replastered,
Deuteronomy 14:7
Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these among those which chew the cud, or among those that divide the hoof in two: the camel and the rabbit and the shaphan, for though they chew the cud, they do not divide the hoof; they are unclean for you.
Jeremiah 34:11
But afterward they turned around and took back the male servants and the female servants whom they had set free, and brought them into subjection for male servants and for female servants.
Ezekiel 33:18
When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, then he shall die in it.
Matthew 7:27
The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”
Luke 14:30
saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’
Luke 17:32
Remember Lot’s wife.
1 Timothy 5:15
for some have already turned aside to follow Satan.