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 in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free, and be not intangled again with the yoke of bondage.
1 Peter 2:16
yet not having your liberty for a cloak of wickedness, but as the servants of God.
They themselves
John 8:34
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily I say unto you, he that practiseth sin, is the slave of sin:
Romans 6:12
Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in the desires thereof.
Titus 3:3
For we also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, inslaved to various desires and pleasures, living in wickedness and envy, hateful, hating one another:
Overcome
2 Peter 2:20
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, thro the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again intangled therein and overcome, their last state is worse then the first.
2 Timothy 2:26
And they may awake out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at 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. Whosoever shall seek to save his life,