2 Peter 2:22

But that word of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog has turned back to his own vomit; and, The washed sow to her rolling in mud.

Proverbs 26:11

As a dog turneth back to its vomit, so a fool repeateth 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

As a dog turneth back to its vomit, so a fool repeateth his folly.

General references

And Abraham said to him, Beware that thou bring not my son thither again.

And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plastered,

And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return to Egypt.

Only these ye shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those with hoofs cloven and split open: the camel, and the hare, and the rock-badger; for they chew the cud, but have not cloven hoofs they shall be unclean unto you;

But afterwards they turned, and caused the bondmen and the bondmaids whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for bondmen and for bondmaids.

When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and doeth what is wrong, then he shall die therein.

and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.

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

Remember the wife of Lot.

For already some have turned aside after Satan.