◄ 2 Peter 2:22 ►
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Good News Translation
What happened to them shows that the proverbs are true: "A dog goes back to what it has vomited" and "A pig that has been washed goes back to roll in the mud."

New Revised Standard Version
It has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns back to its own vomit,” and, “The sow is washed only to wallow in the mud.”

Contemporary English Version
What happened to them is just like the true saying, "A dog will come back to lick up its own vomit. A pig that has been washed will roll in the mud."

New American Bible
What is expressed in the true proverb has happened to them, “The dog returns to its own vomit,” and “A bathed sow returns to wallowing in the mire.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
For, that of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog is returned to his vomit; and: The sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For, that of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog is returned to his vomit; and: The sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

The dog.

Proverbs 26:11 As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is the fool that repeateth his folly.

Context
Deliverance from False Prophets
…21For it had been better for them not to have known the way of justice than, after they have known it, to turn back from that holy commandment which was delivered to them. 22For, that of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog is returned to his vomit; and: The sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Cross References
Proverbs 26:11
As a dog that returneth to his vomit, so is the fool that repeateth his folly.

John 10:6
This proverb Jesus spoke to them. But they understood not what he spoke.

2 Peter 2:21
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