2 Peter 2:19

New American Standard Bible 2020

promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what anyone is overcome, by this he is enslaved.

Cross References

Isaiah 28:1

Woe to the proud crown of the habitually drunk of Ephraim, And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, Which is at the head of the fertile valley Of those who are overcome with wine!

Jeremiah 23:9

¶As for the prophets: My heart is broken within me, All my bones tremble; I have become like a drunken man, And like a man overcome by wine, Because of the Lord And because of His holy words.

Leviticus 13:8

And the priest shall look, and if the rash has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is leprosy.

John 8:34

Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

Acts 19:16

And the man in whom was the evil spirit, pounced on them and subdued all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

Galatians 5:1

It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

Galatians 5:13

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.

2 Timothy 2:26

and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.

Titus 3:3

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

1 Peter 2:16

Act as free people, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bond-servants of God.

2 Peter 1:4

Through these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world on account of lust.

2 Peter 2:20

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.