2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to corrupt habits; for a person is the slave of anything to which they give way.

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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

18With boastful and foolish talk, they appeal to the passions of people’s lower nature, and, by their profligacy, entice those who are just escaping from the people who live such misguided lives.

20If, after having escaped the polluting influences of the world, through knowing our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, people are again entangled in them, and give way to them, their last state has become worse than their first.

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Cross References

Romans 6:12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies and compel you to obey its cravings.

Galatians 5:1It is for freedom that Christ set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not again be held under the yoke of slavery.

2 Timothy 2:26and they may yet come to a sober mind, and escape from the devil’s net, when captured by the Lord’s servant to do the will of God.

1 Peter 2:16Act as free people, yet not using your freedom as those do who make it a cloak for wickedness, 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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