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 itself, wallows in the mud.”

Proverbs 26:11

As a dog returns to its vomit,
so a fool repeats his foolishness.

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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 returns to its vomit,
so a fool repeats his foolishness.

General references

Abraham answered him, “Make sure that you don’t take my son back there.

“If the contamination reappears in the house after the stones have been pulled out, and after the house has been scraped and replastered,

So they said to one another, “Let’s appoint a leader and go back to Egypt.”

But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves, you are not to eat these:

the camel, the hare, and the hyrax,
though they chew the cud, they do not have hooves—
they are unclean for you;

Afterward, however, they changed their minds and took back their male and female slaves they had freed and forced them to become slaves again.

When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die on account of this.

The rain fell, the rivers rose, the winds blew and pounded that house, and it collapsed. And its collapse was great!”

saying, ‘This man started to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

Remember Lot’s wife!

For some have already turned away to follow Satan.