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
Christ has set us free in freedom; stand fast therefore, and be not held again in a yoke of bondage.
1 Peter 2:16
as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God's bondmen.
They themselves
John 8:34
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Every one that practises sin is the bondman of sin.
Romans 6:12
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts.
Titus 3:3
For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Overcome
2 Peter 2:20
For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is worse than the first.
Isaiah 28:1
Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious adornment, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine.
Jeremiah 23:9
Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome; because of Jehovah, and because of the words of his holiness.
2 Timothy 2:26
and that they may awake up out of the snare of the devil, who are taken by him, for his will.
General references
Leviticus 13:8
and the priest shall look on him, and behold, the scab hath spread in the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is leprosy.
Deuteronomy 14:7
Only these ye shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those with hoofs cloven and split open: the camel, and the hare, and the rock-badger; for they chew the cud, but have not cloven hoofs they shall be unclean unto you;
1 Kings 13:19
Then 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 the wife of Lot.