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
Christ having made us gloriously free--stand fast and do not again be hampered with the yoke of slavery.
1 Peter 2:16
Be free men, and yet do not make your freedom an excuse for base conduct, but be God's bondservants.
They themselves
John 8:34
"In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that every one who commits sin is the slave of sin.
Romans 6:12
Let not Sin therefore reign as king in your mortal bodies, causing you to be in subjection to their cravings;
Titus 3:3
For there was a time when we also were deficient in understanding, obstinate, deluded, the slaves of various cravings and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another.
Overcome
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after escaping from the pollutions of the world through a full knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, people are once more entangled in these pollutions and are overcome, their last state has become worse than their first.
2 Timothy 2:26
and recover sober-mindedness and freedom from the Devil's snare, though they are now entrapped by him to do his will.
General references
Luke 14:30
saying, 'This man began to build, but could not finish.'
Luke 17:32
Remember Lot's wife.