2 Peter 2:19

While they promise them freedom, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for by whatever any man is overcome, he is also enslaved.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

In Context

18For by speaking boastful words of folly, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, and through lasciviousness, those who had really escaped from those who live in error.

20For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these, and overcome by them, the last state of such is worse than the first.

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Cross References

Romans 6:12Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey it;

Galatians 5:1Stand firm, therefore, in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and be not held fast again in the yoke of bondage.

2 Timothy 2:26and that they may awake to sobriety out of the snare of the devil, after having been taken captive by him according to his will.

1 Peter 2:16as being free, and yet not using your freedom as a cloak for malice, but as servants of God.

Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 2:11-22

False Teachers. ( a. d. 67.) 10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. 11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. 12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; 13 And shall receive… Read the whole commentary →

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