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 firm in the liberty with which Christ has made you free, and be not again subject to a yoke of servitude.
1 Peter 2:16
as free, and not using freedom for a cloak of vice, but as servants of God.
They themselves
John 8:34
Jesus answered them, I tell you most truly, that every one who commits sin is a servant of the sin.
Romans 6:12
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to obey its desires,
Titus 3:3
For we formerly were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, detestable, and hating one another;
Overcome
2 Peter 2:20
For if having escaped the defilements of the world by a knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and overcome by them, the last state of those persons is worse than the first.
2 Timothy 2:26
and that they may recover themselves from the snare of the devil, who are made captives by him to 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.