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For if, after they have ^(bf)escaped the defilements of the world by ^(bg)the knowledge of the ^(bh)Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again ^(bi)entangled in them and are overcome, ^(bj)the last state has become worse for them than the first.

^(bk)For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from ^(bl)the holy commandment ^(bm)handed on to them.

^[h]It has happened to them according to the true proverb, "^(bn)A dog returns to its own vomit ," and, "A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire."