2 Peter 2:19-21

Darby Translation

¹⁹ promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is subdued, by him is he also brought into slavery.

²⁰ For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through [the] knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is worse than the first.

²¹ For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known [it] to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.