2 Peter 2:19

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, for people are slaves to whatever masters them.

Cross References

Isaiah 28:1

Woe to the proud garland of the drunkards of Ephraim and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, at the head of the fertile valley, those overcome with wine!

Jeremiah 23:9

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

Leviticus 13:8

The priest shall make an examination, and if the eruption has spread in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is defiling.

John 8:34

Jesus answered them, “Very truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.

Acts 19:16

Then the man with the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered them all, and so overpowered them that they fled out of the house naked and wounded.

Galatians 5:1

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Galatians 5:13

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters, only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become enslaved to one another.

2 Timothy 2:26

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

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.

1 Peter 2:16

As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.

2 Peter 1:4

Thus he has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust and may become participants of the divine nature.

2 Peter 2:20

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