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
They themselves
General references
Bible References
They promise
Galatians 5:1 It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.
1 Peter 2:16
Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.
They themselves
John 8:34
Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.
Romans 6:12
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,
Titus 3:3 For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
Overcome
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
Isaiah 28:1 Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim,
And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
Which is at the head of thefertile valley
Of those who areovercome with wine!
And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
Which is at the head of the
Of those who are
Jeremiah 23:9 As for the prophets:
Myheart is broken within me,
All my bones tremble;
I have become like a drunken man,
Even like a man overcome with wine,
Because of the Lord
And because of His holy words.
My
All my bones tremble;
I have become like a drunken man,
Even like a man overcome with wine,
Because of the Lord
And because of His holy words.
2 Timothy 2:26
and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.
General references
Leviticus 13:8
The priest shall look, and if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is leprosy.
Deuteronomy 14:7
Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these among those which chew the cud, or among those that divide the hoof in two: the camel and the rabbit and the shaphan, for though they chew the cud, they do not divide the hoof; they are unclean for you.
1 Kings 13:19
So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house and drank water.
Luke 14:30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’
Luke 17:32 Remember Lot’s wife.