2 Peter 2:22 - Easy To Read Version

²² What those people did is like this true saying: “When a dog vomits (throws up), he comes back to his vomit.” {\cf2\super [10]} And, “After a pig is washed, the pig goes back and rolls in the mud again.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² There has befallen them the thing spoken of in the true proverb, The dog turns back to his own vomit, and, The sow is washed only to wallow again in the mire. [Prov. 26:11.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²² It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.

Common English Bible

²² They demonstrate the truth of the proverb: “A dog returns to its own vomit, and a washed sow wallows in the mud.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² For the truth of the proverb has happened to them: The dog has returned to his own vomit, and the washed sow has returned to her wallowing in the mud.

2 Peter 2:22 Cross References

Proverbs 26:11

A dog eats food. Then he gets sick and vomits. Then the dog eats that food again. It is the same with a foolish person. He does the same foolish things again and again.

Leviticus 14:43

“Maybe a person took away the old stones and plaster [220] and put in new stones and plaster. And maybe mildew [221] again appears in that house.

John 10:6

Jesus told the people this story. But the people did not understand what the story meant.