2 Peter 2:19 Cross References - Noyes

¹⁹ promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by the same is he also brought into bondage.

³⁴ Jesus answered them, Truly, truly do I say to you, Every one that committeth sin is a bondservant of sin.

¹² Let not then sin reign in your mortal body, bringing you into subjection to its lusts, ¹³ nor yield up your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but yield up yourselves to God, as being alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness. ¹⁴ For sin shall not hold dominion over you; for ye are not under the Law, but under grace.

¹⁶ Know ye not, that whomever ye choose to obey as a master, his bondmen ye are, whether of sin whose fruit is death, or of obedience whose fruit is righteousness? ¹⁷ But thanks be to God that, though ye were the bondmen of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching which was delivered to you; ¹⁸ and being made free from sin, ye became the bondmen of righteousness. ¹⁹ I speak in a way common among men on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as ye once yielded your members as slaves to impurity and to iniquity, in order to commit iniquity, so now yield your members as bondmen to righteousness in order to become holy. ²⁰ For when ye were the slaves of sin, ye were not the bondmen of righteousness. ²¹ What fruit then had ye at that time from those things of which ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. ²² But now having been delivered from the slavery of sin, and having become the bondservants of God, ye have holiness as the fruit, and everlasting life as the end.

¹ Stand firm in the liberty with which Christ made us free, and be not again bound fast to the yoke of bondage.

¹³ For ye, brethren, were called to liberty; only use not your liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by your love serve one another.

²⁶ and they may awake to their senses out of the snare of the Devil, by whom they have been taken captive to do his will.

³ For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, going astray, slaves to divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

¹⁶ as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as servants of God.

²⁰ For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is worse with them than the first.