2 Peter 2:19

Good News Translation

They promise them freedom while they themselves are slaves of destructive habits—for we are slaves of anything that has conquered us.

Cross References

Isaiah 28:1

The kingdom of Israel is doomed! Its glory is fading like the crowns of flowers on the heads of its drunken leaders. Their proud heads are well perfumed, but there they lie, dead drunk.

Jeremiah 23:9

My heart is crushed, and I am trembling. Because of the Lord, because of his holy words, I am like a man who is drunk, someone who has had too much wine.

Leviticus 13:8

The priest will examine you again, and if it has spread, he shall pronounce you unclean; it is a dreaded skin disease.

John 8:34

Jesus said to them, “I am telling you the truth: everyone who sins is a slave of sin.

Acts 19:16

The man who had the evil spirit in him attacked them with such violence that he overpowered them all. They ran away from his house, wounded and with their clothes torn off.

Galatians 5:1

Freedom is what we have—Christ has set us free! Stand, then, as free people, and do not allow yourselves to become slaves again.

Galatians 5:13

As for you, my friends, you were called to be free. But do not let this freedom become an excuse for letting your physical desires control you. Instead, let love make you serve one another.

2 Timothy 2:26

And then they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the Devil, who had caught them and made them obey his will.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and wrong. We were slaves to passions and pleasures of all kinds. We spent our lives in malice and envy; others hated us and we hated them.

1 Peter 2:16

Live as free people; do not, however, use your freedom to cover up any evil, but live as God's slaves.

2 Peter 1:4

In this way he has given us the very great and precious gifts he promised, so that by means of these gifts you may escape from the destructive lust that is in the world, and may come to share the divine nature.

2 Peter 2:20

If people have escaped from the corrupting forces of the world through their knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and then are again caught and conquered by them, such people are in worse condition at the end than they were at the beginning.