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
Stand fast therefore, and be not hampered again with the yoke of bondage.
1 Peter 2:16
men. You are free, don't let your liberty serve as a pretext for vice: but act as the servants
They themselves
John 8:34
Jesus answered them, I declare unto you, whosoever committeth sin, is a slave to sin.
Romans 6:12
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, by making you slaves to the lusts thereof.
Titus 3:3
for even we ourselves were once inconsiderate, disobedient, deluded, addicted to variety of passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, the deserving objects of mutual hatred.
Overcome
2 Peter 2:20
As for those who have renounc'd the pollutions of the world, by their owning Jesus Christ for their Lord and saviour, if they are prevail'd upon to be entangled therein again, their last state is worse than the first.
2 Timothy 2:26
and so they may rouze out of the snare of the devil, who leads them captive at his discretion.
General references
Luke 14:30
this man, will they say, began to build, but wanted stock to finish.
Luke 17:32
remember Lot's wife.