2 Peter 2:22

The [statement] of the true proverb has happened to them, "A dog returns to its own vomit," and "A sow, [after] washing herself, [returns] to wallowing in the mud."

Proverbs 26:11

Like a dog returning to his vomit [is] a fool reverting to 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 returning to his vomit [is] a fool reverting to his folly.

General references

Abraham said to him, "{You must take care} that you do not return my son there.

"But if the infection should return and it breaks out in the house after they have removed the stones and after scraping off [the plaster] of the house and after it has been replastered,

{They said to each other}, "Let us appoint a leader, and we will return [to] Egypt."

Only these you may not eat from {those chewing the cud} and from {those having a division of the hoof}: the camel and the hare and the coney, because {they chew the cud}, but they [do] not divide the hoof; they are [therefore] unclean for you.

But {afterward} they turned back and they brought back the [male] slaves and the female slaves whom they had let go free, and they subdued them as [male] slaves and female slaves.

When [the] righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, then he will die {because of it}.

And the rain came down and the rivers came and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it collapsed, and its fall was great."

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

Remember Lot's wife!

For already some have turned away [and followed] after Satan.