2 Peter 2:19 Cross References - Lamsa

¹⁹ They, while they promise liberty, themselves are the slaves of corruption: for a man is overcome by whatever it is that enslaves him.

³⁴ Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Whoever commits sin is a servant of sin.

¹² Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof. ¹³ Neither should you yield your members as instruments of iniquity to sin: but yield yourselves to God, just as if you were men who had risen from among the dead, and let your members be instruments of righteousness to God. ¹⁴ Sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are no longer under the law, but under grace.

¹⁶ Do you not know, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are, for you obey him, whether it be to sin or whether it be of obedience to righteousness? ¹⁷ But thank God that you, who were once the servants of sin, now obey from the heart that form of doctrine which has been delivered to you. ¹⁸ Now, being made free from sin, you become the servants of righteousness. ¹⁹ I speak after the manner of men because of the weakness of your flesh: for as you have yielded your members to the servitude of uncleanness and iniquity, so now yield your members to the servitude of righteousness and holiness. ²⁰ For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. ²¹ What kind of fruit did you have then, in the things of which you are now ashamed? for the end thereof is death. ²² But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, your fruits are holy, and the end thereof is life everlasting.

¹ STAND firm therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and be not harnessed again under the yoke of servitude.

¹³ For, my brethren, you have been called unto liberty; only do not use your liberty for an occasion to the things of the flesh, but by love serve one another.

²⁶ And come to themselves, and be saved from the trap of Satan, by whom they have been trapped to his will.

³ For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, misled, and serving divers lusts and passions, living in malice and envy, hated, and also hating one another.

¹⁶ Act as free men, and not as men who use their liberty as a cloak for their maliciousness; but as the servants of God.

²⁰ For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through knowledge of our LORD and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled by these very things, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.