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2 Peter 2:19

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promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

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2 Peter 2:19 in other translations

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.

2 Peter 2:19 · American Standard Version

2 Peter 2:19 in context

  1. 17These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
  2. 18For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
  3. 19promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
  4. 20For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
  5. 21For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.