2 Peter 2:19-21

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁹ Promising them liberty, whereas they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom a man is overcome, of the same also he is the slave.

²⁰ For if, flying from the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they be again entangled in them and overcome: their latter state is become unto them worse than the former.

²¹ For it had been better for them not to have known the way of justice, than after they have known it, to turn back from that holy commandment which was delivered to them.