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
Overcome
General references
Bible References
They promise
Galatians 5:1
Christ has set you free with freedom, Therefore stand, and be not again entangled with the yoke of bondage.
1 Peter 2:16
as free, and not as having the freedom as a cover of evil, but as servants of God.
They themselves
John 8:34
Jesus responded to them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, That every one doing sin is the slave of sin.
Romans 6:12
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that you should obey the lusts of it:
Titus 3:3
For when we also were without understanding, being disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in sin and envy, hateful, hating one another;
Overcome
2 Peter 2:20
For if having escaped the pollutions of the world through the perfect knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and having again become entangled in these things, they are overcome, the last state has to them become worse than the first.
2 Timothy 2:26
and they may escape from the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him (the Lord's servant) according to his will.
General references
Luke 14:30
saying, that this man began to build, and was not able to complete it.
Luke 17:32
Remember Lot's wife.