since His divine power has given to us all things pertaining to life and godliness, through the full knowledge of Him Who called us through His glory and virtue;

These are fountains without water, and mists driven by a storm, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what one is overcome by this he has become enslaved.

For if, after having escaped the defilements of the world in a full knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but, having again become entangled with these, they are overcome, the last state has become worse with them than the first.

It has happened to them according to the true proverb, "A dog having returned to his own vomit"; and "A sow that was washed, to her wallowing in mire."