2 Peter 2:22
The thing spoken of in the true proverb has happened to them, “The dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “A sow is washed only to wallow [again] in the mire.”
Proverbs 26:11
Like a dog that returns to his vomit
Is a fool who repeats his foolishness.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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
Bible References
The dog
Proverbs 26:11
Like a dog that returns to his vomit
Is a fool who repeats his foolishness.
Like a dog that returns to his vomit
Is a fool who repeats his foolishness.
General references
Genesis 24:6
Abraham said to him, “See to it that you do not take my son back there!
Leviticus 14:43
“If, however, the mark breaks out again in the house after he has removed the stones and has scraped and replastered the house,
Numbers 14:4
So they said one to another, “Let us appoint a [new] leader and return to Egypt.”
Deuteronomy 14:7
However, you are not to eat any of these [animals] among those which chew the cud, or among those that divide the hoof in two: the camel, the hare and the shaphan, for though they chew the cud, they do not split the hoof; they are unclean for you.
Jeremiah 34:11
But afterward they backed out [of the covenant] and made the male servants and the female servants whom they had set free return [to them], and brought the male servants and the female servants again into servitude.
Ezekiel 33:18
When the righteous turns back from his righteousness and commits injustice, he will also die because of it.
Matthew 7:27 And the rain fell, and the floods and torrents came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great and complete was its fall.”
Luke 14:30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish!’
Luke 17:32 Remember [what happened to] Lot’s wife [when she looked back]!
1 Timothy 5:15
Some [widows] have already turned away [from the faith] to follow Satan.