2 Peter 2:21-22

2 Peter 2:21-22 AFINTLIT

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. The statement of the true proverb has happened to them: “A dog returns to its own vomit,” and “A sow, after washing herself, to wallowing in the mire.”* 2 Greek whom 6 The word if, which introduces the conditional clause, is supplied to the text based on context for the sake of clarity 12 Greek will in their destruction also be destroyed 14 The phrase lust for is supplied to the text based on context for the sake of clarity 14 Greek children of a curse 15 Greek Balaam, of Bosor 17 Some ancient manuscripts read for whom the gloom of darkness has forever been kept to harmonise the reading with a parallel in Jude 13 19 Some ancient manuscripts expand the text to read by that he is also enslaved 22 Quoted from Prov. 26:11

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