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

For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

They themselves

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:

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

Overcome

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine!

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 his holy words.

and they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him unto his will.

General references

and the priest shall look; and, behold, if the scab be spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is leprosy.

Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the coney; because they chew the cud but part not the hoof, 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.