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Forif after they have escaped the pollutions of the worldthrough the knowledge of the LordandSaviourJesusChrist, they areagainentangledtherein,andovercome*, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
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For it had beenbetter for themnot to have known the way of righteousness,than, after they have known it, to turnfrom the holycommandmentdelivered unto them.
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But it is happened unto them according to the trueproverb, The dog is turnedto his ownvomitagain; and the sow that was washedto her wallowing in the mire.