2 Peter 2:19

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, since people are enslaved to whatever defeats them.

Cross References

John 8:34

Jesus responded, ‘Truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

Galatians 5:13

For you were called  to be free, brothers and sisters; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity  for the flesh, but serve one another through love.

1 Peter 2:16

Submit as free people, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil,  but as God’s slaves.

Galatians 5:1

For freedom, Christ set us free. Stand firm,  then, and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Titus 3:3

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions  and pleasures,  living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

2 Timothy 2:26

Then they may come to their senses and escape the trap of the devil,  who has taken them captive to do his will.

Jeremiah 23:9

Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones tremble. I have become like a drunkard, like a man overcome by wine, because of the  Lord, because of his holy words.

Isaiah 28:1

Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, and to the fading flower of its beautiful splendour, which is on the summit above the rich valley. Woe to those overcome with wine.

2 Peter 2:20

For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of the Lord  and Saviour Jesus Christ,  they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.

Acts 19:16

Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them, overpowered them all, and prevailed against them, so that they ran out of that house naked and wounded.

2 Peter 1:4

By these he has given us very great and precious promises,  so that through them you may share in the divine nature,  escaping the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire.

Leviticus 13:8

The priest will examine him, and if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest must pronounce him unclean; he has a serious skin disease.