For if having escaped from the defilements of the world by a personal knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ but by the same having again become entangled、 they are defeated
The last state hath become、 for them、 worse than the first;
For better had it been for them—
Not to have obtained a personal knowledge of the way of righteousness,
Than having obtained such knowledge to turn back out of the holy commandment delivered unto them.
There...
2 Peter 2:20–22