2 Peter 2:19-21

International Standard Version

¹⁹ Promising them freedom, they themselves are slaves to depravity, for a person is a slave to whatever conquers him.

²⁰ For if, after escaping the world’s corruptions through a full knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Messiah,^[a] they are again entangled and conquered by those corruptions,^[b] then their last condition is worse than their former one. ²¹ It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to know it and turn their backs on the holy commandment that was committed to them.