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
General references
Bible References
They promise
Galatians 5:1
Christ has liberated us to be free. Stand firm then and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.
1 Peter 2:16
As God’s slaves, live as free people, but don’t use your freedom as a way to conceal evil.
They themselves
John 8:34
Jesus responded, “I assure you: Everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.
Romans 6:12
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires.
Titus 3:3
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.
Overcome
2 Peter 2:20
For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.
Isaiah 28:1 Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards,
and to the fading flower of its beautiful splendor,
which is on the summit above the rich valley.
Woe to those overcome with wine.
and to the fading flower of its beautiful splendor,
which is on the summit above the rich valley.
Woe to those overcome with wine.
Jeremiah 23:9
Concerning the prophets:
My heart is broken within me,
and all my bones tremble.
I have become like a drunkard,
like a man overcome by wine,
because of the Lord,
because of His holy words.
and all my bones tremble.
I have become like a drunkard,
like a man overcome by wine,
because of the Lord,
because of His holy words.
2 Timothy 2:26
Then they may come to their senses and escape the Devil’s trap, having been captured by him to do his will.
General references
Leviticus 13:8
The priest will examine him, and if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest must pronounce him unclean; he has a skin disease.
Deuteronomy 14:7
But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves, you are not to eat these:
the camel, the hare, and the hyrax,
though they chew the cud, they do not have hooves—
they are unclean for you;
though they chew the cud, they do not have hooves—
they are unclean for you;
1 Kings 13:19
and the man of God went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.
Luke 14:30 saying, ‘This man started to build and wasn’t able to finish.’
Luke 17:32 Remember Lot’s wife!