2 Peter 2:19

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

Galatians 5:1

1 Peter 2:16

They themselves

John 8:34

Romans 6:12

Titus 3:3

Overcome

General references

Luke 17:32

Bible References

They promise

Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and do not again be held with the yoke of bondage.

as free, and not having freedom as a cover of evil, but as servants of God.

They themselves

Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Whoever practices sin is the slave of sin.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Overcome

For if they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the full knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and are again entangled, they have been overcome by these, their last things are worse than the first.

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower which is on the head of the fat valleys of those who are overcome with wine!

My heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Jehovah, and because of the Words of His holiness.

and that they awake out of the snare of the Devil, having been taken captive by him, so as to do the will of that one.

General references

And if the priest sees that, behold, the scab spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a leprosy.

But these you shall not eat, of those which chew the cud, or of those that divide the cloven hoof: the camel, and the hare, and the rock badger, for they chew the cud, but do not divide the hoof. They are unclean to you.

So he went back with him and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish.

Remember Lot's wife.