2 Peter 2:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

They promise

Galatians 5:1

1 Peter 2:16

They themselves

John 8:34

Romans 6:12

Titus 3:3

Overcome

General references

Luke 17:32

Bible References

They promise

Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

They themselves

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever commits sin is the servant of sin.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Overcome

For if after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which is on the head of the rich valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

My heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.

And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

General references

And if the priest sees that, behold, the scab spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a leprosy.

Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that have cloven hooves; as the camel, and the hare, and the rock badger: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.

So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.

Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

Remember Lot's wife.