2Pe 2:21-22, 1Jo 2:19 | ESV | STEP | For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them .

2 Peter 2:21-22

21 For ^ait would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from ^bthe holy commandment delivered to them. 22 What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The ^cdog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”

1 John 2:19

19 ^dThey went out from us, but they were not of us; for ^eif they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, ^fthat it might become plain that they all are not of us.