If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. 21 It 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. 22 Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud.”


Three warnings Peter shares about false teachers

1.Escaped Sin
If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 20a

2 Peter 2:20 NKJ For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ…

2. Enslaved Again
and are again entangled in it and are overcome, 20b

3. Extremely Worse Off
they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. 21 It 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. 22 Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud.” 20c-22

Matthew 12:43-45  “When an evil spirit leaves a person, it goes into the desert, seeking rest but finding none. 44 Then it says, ‘I will return to the person I came from.’ So it returns and finds its former home empty, swept, and in order. 45 Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before. That will be the experience of this evil generation.”

Proverbs 26:11 “As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his foolishness.”
 1 Corinthians 9:24:“Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it”