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
Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
1 Peter 2:16
as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
They themselves
John 8:34
Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.
Romans 6:12
Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
Titus 3:3
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Overcome
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
Isaiah 28:1
Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!
Jeremiah 23:9
Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.
2 Timothy 2:26
and they may recover themselves out of the devil's snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.
General references
Leviticus 13:8
The priest shall examine him; and behold, if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.
Deuteronomy 14:7
Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the rabbit; because they chew the cud but don't part the hoof, they are unclean to you.
1 Kings 13:19
So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.
Luke 14:30
saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.'
Luke 17:32
Remember Lot's wife!