2 Peter 2:19-22 promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.

WPNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁹ promising them freedom while 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 defilements of the world through the real knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter circumstances have become worse for them than the first ones. ²¹ For it would have been better for them not to have really known the way of the righteousness, than having really known it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: a dog returns to its own vomit and a bathed sow to wallowing in mud.