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 this freedom that Christ set us free [completely liberating us]; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery [which you once removed].
1 Peter 2:16
Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover or pretext for evil, but [use it and live] as bond-servants of God.
They themselves
John 8:34
Jesus answered, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, everyone who practices sin habitually is a slave of sin.
Romans 6:12
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts and passions.
Titus 3:3
For we too once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various sinful desires and pleasures, spending and wasting our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
Overcome
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world by [personal] knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, their last condition has become worse for them than the first.
Isaiah 28:1 Woe (judgment is coming) to [Samaria] the splendid crown of the drunkards of Ephraim,
And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
Which is at the head of the rich valley
Of those who are overcome with wine!
And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
Which is at the head of the rich valley
Of those who are overcome with wine!
Jeremiah 23:9
Concerning the prophets:
My heart [says Jeremiah] is broken within me,
All my bones shake;
I have become like a drunken man,
A man whom wine has overcome,
Because of the Lord
And because of His holy words [declared against unfaithful leaders].
Concerning the prophets:
My heart [says Jeremiah] is broken within me,
All my bones shake;
I have become like a drunken man,
A man whom wine has overcome,
Because of the Lord
And because of His holy words [declared against unfaithful leaders].
2 Timothy 2:26
and that they may come to their senses and escape from the trap 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 he shall pronounce him unclean; it is leprosy.
Deuteronomy 14:7
However, you are not to eat any of these [animals] among those which chew the cud, or among those that divide the hoof in two: the camel, the hare and the shaphan, for though they chew the cud, they do not split the hoof; they are unclean for you.
1 Kings 13:19
So the man of God 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 [what happened to] Lot’s wife [when she looked back]!