| Samuel Eyles Pierce - 1835 - 606 Seiten
...righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true...sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." 2 Pet. ii. 20 — 22. Read the whole chapter, and the Epistle of Jude, and you will find them to be the... | |
| Edwin Sidney - 1835 - 516 Seiten
...the faith, and leave their first love, the threatenings of God against them pain him to the heart. " If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse than the beginning ;" and if any " man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him." Such scenes... | |
| 1836 - 592 Seiten
...shall have no pleasure in " him ; but we are not of them who draw back unto perdition." (ib. 38, 9). " If, after they have escaped the pollutions of the..." latter end is worse with them than the beginning ; for it had " been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, " than after they have... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 574 Seiten
...19, 20. — " As a dog returneth to his vomit ; so a fool returneth to his folly," Prov. xxvi. 11. " But it is happened unto them according to the true...that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire," 2 Peter ii. 22.* 27. Ecdesiastes.~] In regard to the human * See further— Prov. i. 24 — Is. Ixv.... | |
| Paul V. Harrison, Robert E. Picirilli - 1992 - 384 Seiten
...1:4 and compare Rom. 8:21. 2. The seriousness of the apostasy they demonstrate (vv. 20, 21) 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have... | |
| Lloyd K. Jones - 1996 - 198 Seiten
...the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he .brought in bondage. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known... | |
| Ruth Paxson - 514 Seiten
...divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 2 Peter 2:20, "For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...latter end is worse with them than the beginning." John 15:18, "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you." Thus God states... | |
| Toby Awasum - 1997 - 180 Seiten
...will repay (see Rom. 12:19). Let us beware, therefore, lest we fall into this same kind of error. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known... | |
| Ira L. Milligan, Judy Milligan - 1997 - 541 Seiten
...fornicator; hypocrite; idolater. Boar = Persecutor; hostile to virtue; vicious; vengeful; danger. I But it is happened unto them according to the true...sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire (2 Peter 2:22). Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest... | |
| Jonas Clark - 2001 - 138 Seiten
...ASSOCIATIONS Wrong associations are very dangerous and can do more damage than Satan himself. "For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. {21} For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have... | |
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