2 Peter 2:22

But that of the TRUE proverb has happened to them, The dog returning to his own vomit, and the sow that washed to wallowing in mire.

Proverbs 26:11

As a dog who returns to his 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

As a dog who returns to his vomit, [is] a fool who repeats his folly.

General references

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

And if the disease comes again, and breaks out in the house, after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it is plastered,

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

Nevertheless of those that chew the cud, or of those that have the hoof cloven, these ye shall not eat: the camel, and the hare, and the coney, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, they are unclean to you,

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

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

And the rain descended, and the torrents came, and the winds blew, and beat upon 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 turned aside after Satan.