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
Through
The latter
General references
Bible References
Escaped
2 Peter 2:18
For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk, they use earthly cravings--every kind of immorality--as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence of those who live in error.
2 Peter 1:4
It is by means of these that He has granted us His precious and wondrous promises, in order that through them you may, one and all, become sharers in the very nature of God, having completely escaped the corruption which exists in the world through earthly cravings.
Through
2 Peter 1:2
May more and more grace and peace be granted to you in a full knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,
The latter
Philippians 3:19
Their end is destruction, their bellies are their God, their glory is in their shame, and their minds are devoted to earthly things.
General references
Matthew 7:27
The heavy rain descends, the swollen torrents come, and the winds blow and burst upon the house, and it falls; and disastrous is the fall."
Luke 14:30
saying, 'This man began to build, but could not finish.'
Luke 17:32
Remember Lot's wife.
1 Timothy 5:15
For already some of them have gone astray, following Satan.