2 Peter 2:19

and promise freedom [or liberty] to them, when they be (the) servants of corruption. For of whom any man is overcome, of him also he is (their) servant.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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

18And they speak in (the) pride of vanity, and deceive in (the) desires of (the) flesh of lechery them, that escape a little. Which live in error,

20For if men forsake the uncleannesses of the world, by the knowing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and again be [en] wrapped in these, and be overcome, the latter things be made to them worse than the former.

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Cross References

Leviticus 13:8and he shall be deemed to be of uncleanness. (and the priest shall pronounce him to be unclean.)

Jeremiah 23:9To the prophets; Mine heart is contrite, either all-broken for sorrow, in the midst of me, all my bones trembled together; I am made as a man drunken, and as a man wet of wine, of the face of the Lord, and of the face of the holy words of him, (or I am made like a drunken man, and like one who is wet with wine, because of the Lord, and because of his holy words);

Romans 6:12Therefore reign not sin in your deadly body, that ye obey to his covetings. (And so do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that ye obey its desires.)

Galatians 5:1Stand ye therefore, and do not ye again be held in the yoke of servage. (And so stand firm, and do not be held again in the yoke of servitude or slavery.)

2 Timothy 2:26and that they rise again from the snares of the devil, of whom they be held prisoners at his will (or by whom they be held prisoners by his desire).

1 Peter 2:16As free men, and not as having freedom the covering of malice, but as the 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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