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
This is the freedom with which Christ has freed us. So stand firm in it, and do not get under a yoke of slavery again.
1 Peter 2:16
Live like free men, only do not make your freedom an excuse for doing wrong, but be slaves of God.
They themselves
John 8:34
Jesus answered, "I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.
Romans 6:12
So sin must not reign over your mortal bodies, and make you obey their cravings,
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves were once without understanding, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to all kinds of passions and pleasures. Our minds were full of malice and envy. Men hated us and we hated one another.
Overcome
2 Peter 2:20
For if after men have escaped the corrupting influences of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are overcome by them, their final condition is worse than their former one.
2 Timothy 2:26
and they may yet return to their senses and escape from the toils of the devil, who has caught them to make them do his will.
General references
Luke 14:30
and say, 'This man started to erect a building, and could not finish it!'
Luke 17:32
Remember Lot's wife!