2 Peter 2:19 Cross References - Godbey

¹⁹ promising them liberty, they themselves being the slaves of corruption: for to whatsoever any one has been subordinated, to this he has become enslaved.

³⁴ Jesus responded to them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, That every one doing sin is the slave of sin.

¹² Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that you should obey the lusts of it: ¹³ neither present your members arms of iniquity unto sin; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members arms of righteousness unto God. ¹⁴ For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.

¹⁶ Do you not know, that to whom you present yourselves servants unto obedience, ye are servants to whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or obedience unto righteousness? ¹⁷ But thanks be unto God, that whereas ye were servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart the type of teaching into which ye were delivered: ¹⁸ but having been made free from sin, ye became servants unto righteousness. ¹⁹ I speak after the manner of a man on account of the weakness of your carnality. For as ye presented your members as servants unto impurity and lawlessness pursuant to lawlessness, so now present your members servants unto righteousness pursuant to sanctification. ²⁰ For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. ²¹ What fruit then had you at that time in those things in which you are now ashamed? for the end of these things is death. ²² But now having been made free from sin, and having become servants unto God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.

¹ Christ has set you free with freedom, Therefore stand, and be not again entangled with the yoke of bondage.

¹³ For you were called unto liberty, brethren; only use not the liberty unto an occasion to the flesh, but through divine love serve one another.

²⁶ and they may escape from the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him (the Lord's servant) according to his will.

³ For when we also were without understanding, being disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in sin and envy, hateful, hating one another;

¹⁶ as free, and not as having the freedom as a cover of evil, but as servants of God.

²⁰ For if having escaped the pollutions of the world through the perfect knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and having again become entangled in these things, they are overcome, the last state has to them become worse than the first.