2 Peter 2:20

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.

Escaped

2 Peter 2:18

2 Peter 1:4

Through

2 Peter 1:2

The latter

Numbers 24:20

Deuteronomy 32:29

Philippians 3:19

General references

Bible References

Escaped

For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.

by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

Through

May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

The latter

Then he looked on Amalek and took up his discourse and said, "Amalek was the first among the nations, but its end is utter destruction."

If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern their latter end!

Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.

General references

Abraham said to him, "See to it that you do not take my son back there.

"If the disease breaks out again in the house, after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and plastered it,

Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, are unclean for you.

But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves they had set free, and brought them into subjection as slaves.

When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it.

And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it."

saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.'

Remember Lot's wife.

For some have already strayed after Satan.