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

With her freedom, Christ hath made you, free. Stand fast, therefore, and do not, again, with a yoke of servitude, be held fast!

As free, yet, not as a cloak of vice, holding your freedom, but, as God's servants.

They themselves

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you: Every one who committeth sin, is, a slave, of sin:

Let not sin, therefore, reign in your death-doomed body, that ye should be obedient to its covetings;

For, even we, used, at one time, to be - thoughtless, unyielding, deceived, in servitude unto manifold covetings and pleasures, in malice and envy, leading on, detestable, hating one another.

Overcome

For, if, having escaped from the defilements of the world by a personal knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, but, by the same having again become entangled, they are defeated, the, last, state hath become, for them, worse than, the first;

Alas! for the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, And for his fading wreath of majestic beauty, - Which is on the head of the fertile valley, of them who are overcome with wine.

As for the prophets, - Broken is my heart within me Trembled have all my bones, I have become as a drunken man, And as a strong man whom wine hath overcome, - Because of Yahweh, And because of his holy words.

And they should wake up to sobriety out of, the adversary's, snare, - though they have been taken alive by him for, that one's, will.

General references

and the priest shall take a view, and lo! if the scab hath spread in the skin, then shall the priest pronounce him unclean - leprosy, it is.

Nevertheless these, shall ye not eat, of them that chew the cud, and of them that divide the cloven hoof, - the camel and the hare and the rabbit for, though they do chew the cud, yet the hoof, do they not part, unclean, they are 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!

Bear in mind the wife of Lot! Whosoever shall seek to make his life his own, shall lose it,