2 Peter 2:19

promising them freedoms, while they themselves are the servants of corruption. For by whatever a man is overcome, of this also is he the servant.

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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, speaking with the arrogance of vanity, they lure, by the desires of fleshly pleasures, those who are fleeing to some extent, who are being turned from error,

20For if, after taking refuge from the defilements of the world in the understanding of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again become entangled and overcome by these things, then the latter state becomes worse than the former.

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Cross References

Leviticus 13:8and he shall be condemned of uncleanness.

Jeremiah 23:9To the prophets: “My heart is crushed within me. All my bones are trembling. I have become like an inebriated man, and like a man maddened by wine, before the face of the Lord, and before the face of his holy words.

Romans 6:12Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body, such that you would obey its desires.

Galatians 5:1Stand firm, and do not be willing to be again held by the yoke of servitude.

2 Timothy 2:26and then they may recover from the snares of the devil, by whom they are held captive at his will.

1 Peter 2:16in an open manner, and not as if cloaking malice with liberty, but like 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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