21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them. 22 The statement of the true proverb has happened to them, “A dog returns to its own vomit,”[a] and “A sow, after[b] washing herself, returns[c] to wallowing in the mud.”[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:22 A paraphrased quotation from Prov 26:11
  2. 2 Peter 2:22 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“washing herself”) which is understood as temporal
  3. 2 Peter 2:22 The verb “returns” is not in the Greek text, but is an understood repetition from the previous clause
  4. 2 Peter 2:22 The source of this quotation is uncertain