[18] For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, escaped from them who live in error. [19] While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, is he brought in bondage. [20] For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, again entangled and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. [21] For better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known from the holy commandment delivered unto them. [22] it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.