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THE SECOND EPISTLE GENERAL OF
PETER
CHAPTER 2
  20 For if after they have aescaped the bpollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are cagain dentangled therein, and eovercome, the latter end is fworse with them than the beginning.

Footnotes
20a
Heb. 6: 4 (4-6).
  4 For it is impossible for those who were once aenlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
1 Ne. 8: 28 (24-28).
  28 And after they had atasted of the fruit they were bashamed, because of those that were cscoffing at them; and they dfell away into forbidden paths and were lost.
b
c
Ps. 85: 8.
  8 I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak apeace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn bagain to folly.
D&C 42: 26.
  26 But if he doeth it aagain, he shall not be forgiven, but shall be cast out.
d
2 Cor. 2: 11.
  11 Lest aSatan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
D&C 20: 5.
  5 After it was truly manifested unto this first elder that he had received a aremission of his sins, he was bentangled again in the cvanities of the world;
e
D&C 76: 35 (34-35).
  35 Having adenied the Holy Spirit after having received it, and having denied the Only Begotten Son of the Father, having bcrucified him unto themselves and put him to an open cshame.
f
Alma 24: 30.
  30 And thus we can plainly discern, that after a people have been once aenlightened by the bSpirit of God, and have had great cknowledge of things pertaining to righteousness, and then have dfallen away into sin and transgression, they become more ehardened, and thus their state becomes fworse than though they had never known these things.