For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.
For if men forsaken þe vnclennessis of þe world, bi þe knowyng of oure Lord and sauyour Jhesu Crist, and eftsone ben wlappid in þese, and ben ouercomun, þe lattere thingis ben maad to hem worse than þe formere.