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## 2 Peter 2:21-22 in Context (Verses 18–22 KJV)
 
 [18 ](/kjv/2-peter/2/18) For when they speak great swelling *words* of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, *through much* wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/2-peter/2/19) While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/2-peter/2/20) For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
 
 [21 ](/kjv/2-peter/2/21) For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known *it*, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/2-peter/2/22) But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog *is* turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
 
[2 Peter 1](/kjv/2-peter/1) [2 Peter 3](/kjv/2-peter/3)

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