2 Peter 2:22

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

It has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns back to its own vomit,” and, “The sow is washed only to wallow in the mud.”

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Like a dog that returns to its vomit is a fool who reverts to his folly.

“If the disease breaks out again in the house, after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and plastered it,

Jesus used this figure of speech with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.