Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

Wantonness

General references

Bible References

They speak

Acts 8:9
But there was before in the city a man named Simon practising magic and bewitching the people of Samaria, giving out that he was some great person.
2 Thessalonians 2:4
the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or the object of worship; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Jude 1:13
wandering stars, for whom blackness of darkness is reserved for ever.
Revelation 13:5
And there was given him a mouth speaking great and blasphemous things, and power was given him to make war forty two months.

Wantonness

Romans 13:13
Let us behave decently as being in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lasciviousness, not in strife and envying.
James 5:5
Ye have lived upon earth delicately and luxuriously; ye fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

That were

2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they had escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and vanquished by them, their last state is worse than the first;
2 Peter 1:4
by which are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises; that by these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Acts 2:40
And with many other words did he press and exhort them, saying, Save yourselves from this perverse generation.

General references

Luke 11:35
Take heed therefore least the light which is in thee be darkness.
Luke 17:32
Remember Lot's wife. Whosoever shall seek to save his life, shall lose it;