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 themselves

General references

Bible References

They promise

Galatians 5:1
STAND fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made you free, and be not again held under a yoke of bondage.
1 Peter 2:16
as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for wicked practices; but as being servants of God.

They themselves

John 8:34
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, That every one who committeth sin is the slave of sin.
Romans 6:12
Let not therefore sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the passions thereof.
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also in time past were thoughtless, disobedient, erroneous, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Overcome

2 Peter 2:20
For if having escaped from the defilements of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again enveloped by them and overcome, their last deeds are worse than the first.
2 Timothy 2:26
and that they may escape out of the snare of the devil, who have been captured by him for his will.

General references

Luke 14:30
saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Luke 17:32
Remember Lot's wife.