2 Peter 2:20-22

EasyEnglish Bible

²⁰People like that learned about our Lord Jesus Christ, who saves us. As a result, they had stopped doing the bad things that belong to this world. They had become free from the power of those things. But now they have started to do those bad things again. Those things have power over them and they cannot stop doing them. So now, these false teachers are worse than they were at the beginning, before they believed in the Lord Jesus.

²¹It would have been better for them if they had never known God's good way. But they did understand about the right things that God wants us to do. And then they turned away from that way of life. They stopped obeying God's good rules, that people had taught them. ²²You know these true proverbs: ‘After a dog has been sick, it returns to eat it again.’^[a] Also: ‘After you wash a pig, it will quickly roll in the dirt again.’ These words describe how the false teachers live.

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Footnotes

2:22 The words about the dog come from Proverbs 26:11.

2 Peter 2:20-22

New International Version

²⁰If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing^(A) our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ^(B) and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.^(C) ²¹It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.^(D) ²²Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,”^[a]^(E) and, “A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud.”