2 Peter 2:19

promising to them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom anyone has been defeated, by this one also he has been enslaved.

English Majority Text (NT)

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 when they speak haughty words of emptiness, they entice through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, those who have actually escaped from those who are living in error,

20For if having escaped from the corruptions of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, yet by these, having become entangled they are defeated, the latter end has become worse for them than the first.

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Cross References

Romans 6:12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts,

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

2 Timothy 2:26and they regain their senses and escape out of the snare of the devil, having been captured alive by him to do his will.

1 Peter 2:16as free, yet not using freedom as a cover for wickedness, but as bondservants 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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