through which He has given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, so that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

For he in whom these things are not present is blind and cannot see afar off and has forgotten that he was purged from his sins in the past.

For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

but had reproof of his lawbreaking, a dumb ass speaking in a man's voice, held back the madness of the prophet.

But the word of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog turning to his own vomit; and, The washed sow to wallowing in the mire.