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 hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

They themselves

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Whoever committeth sin, is the servant of sin.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts of it.

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Overcome

For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower; who are on the head of the rich valleys of them that 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 hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.

And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

General references

And if the priest shall see, that behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a leprosy.

Nevertheless, these ye shall not eat, of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore 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.