Deceptions
of False Teachers 18 "For
when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through
the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped
from those who live in error. 19 While they promise
them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a
person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage. 20
For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the
knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled
in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.
21 For it would have been better for them not to
have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from
the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 But it
has happened to them according to the true proverb: “A dog returns to
his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.” |
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