2 Peter 2:22

It has happened to them according to the true proverb, “A dog returns to its own vomit,” and, “A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire.”

Proverbs 26:11

Like a dog that returns to its vomit
Is a fool who repeats his folly.

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2 Peter 2:22

But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

The dog

Proverbs 26:11

General references

Bible References

The dog

Like a dog that returns to its vomit
Is a fool who repeats his folly.

General references

Then Abraham said to him, “Beware that you do not take my son back there!

“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,

So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”

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.

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.

When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, then he shall die in it.

The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”

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

Remember Lot’s wife.

for some have already turned aside to follow Satan.