2 Peter 2:19

Weymouth NT

And they promise them freedom, although they are themselves the slaves of what is corrupt. For a man is the slave of any one by whom he has been worsted in fight.

Cross References

John 8:34

»In most solemn truth I tell you,« replied Jesus, »that every one who commits sin is the slave of sin.

Acts 19:16

And the man in whom the evil spirit was sprang on two of them, over-mastered them both, and treated them with such violence, that they fled from the house stripped of their clothes and wounded.

Galatians 5:1

Christ having made us gloriously free–stand fast and do not again be hampered with the yoke of slavery.

Galatians 5:13

You however, brethren, were called to freedom. Only do not turn your freedom into an excuse for giving way to your lower natures; but become bondservants to one another in a spirit of love.

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.

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.

1 Peter 2:16

Be free men, and yet do not make your freedom an excuse for base conduct, but be God's bondservants.

2 Peter 1:4

It is by means of these that He has granted us His precious and wondrous promises, in order that through them you may, one and all, become sharers in the very nature of God, having completely escaped the corruption which exists in the world through earthly cravings.

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.