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21 Yes, it would be better for them to have never known the right way than to know it and to turn away from the holy teaching that was given to them. 22 What they did is like this true saying: “A dog goes back to what it has thrown up,”[a] and, “After a pig is washed, it goes back and rolls in the mud.”

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  1. 2:22 “A dog . . . up.” Quotation from Proverbs 26:11.

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