For if they, after they have escaped from the filthiness of the world through the knowledge of the Lord, and of the saviour Jesus Christ, they are yet tangled again therein and overcome: then is the latter end worse with them than the beginning.

Grace with you, and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord.

For when they have spoken the swelling words of vanity, they beguile with wantonness through the lusts of the flesh them that were clean escaped: but now are wrapped in errors.

For if we sin willingly after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins:

And he looked on Amalek and began his parable, and said, "Amalek is the first of the nations, but his latter end shall perish utterly."

I would they were wise, and understood this, and would consider their latter end.'

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh throughout dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through waterless places seeking rest. And when he findeth none, he sayeth, I will return again unto my house whence I came out.

whose end is damnation, whose God is their belly and whose glory is to their shame, which are worldly minded.

For it is not possible that they which were once lighted, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were become partakers of the holy ghost,

by the means whereof are given unto us excellent and most great promises; that by the help of them ye should be partakers of the godly nature, in that ye flee the corruption of worldly lust.

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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

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Escaped

For when they have spoken the swelling words of vanity, they beguile with wantonness through the lusts of the flesh them that were clean escaped: but now are wrapped in errors.
by the means whereof are given unto us excellent and most great promises; that by the help of them ye should be partakers of the godly nature, in that ye flee the corruption of worldly lust.

Through

Grace with you, and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord.

The latter

And he looked on Amalek and began his parable, and said, "Amalek is the first of the nations, but his latter end shall perish utterly."
I would they were wise, and understood this, and would consider their latter end.'
whose end is damnation, whose God is their belly and whose glory is to their shame, which are worldly minded.

General references

And Abraham said unto him, "Beware of that, that thou bring not my son thither.
If now the plague come again and break out in the house, after that they have taken away the stones and scraped the house, and after that the house is plastered anew:
Nevertheless, these ye shall not eat of them that chew cud and of them that divide and cleave the hoof: the camel, the hare and the coney. For they chew cud, but divide not the hoof: and therefore are unclean unto you:
But afterward they repented, and took again the servants and the hand maidens, whom they had let go free, and so made them bond again.
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and doeth the thing that is wicked, he shall die therefore.
And abundance of rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
saying, 'This man began to build, and was not able to make an end.'
Remember Lot's wife.
For many of them are all ready turned back, and are gone after Satan.
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