LEB(i)
18 ⌊For by speaking high-sounding but empty words⌋*, they entice with desires of the flesh and with licentiousness those who are scarcely escaping from those who live in error,
19 promising them freedom although they* themselves are slaves of depravity. For to whatever someone succumbs, by this he is also* enslaved.
20 For if, after they* have escaped from the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord* and Savior Jesus Christ, and they are again entangled in these things and succumb to them, the last state has become worse for them than the first.