2 Peter 2:19

Sin Temptation Obedience

¹⁷ These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

¹⁸ For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

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 latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

²¹ For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
KJV: While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
WEB: promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
ASV: 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.
DARBY: promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is subdued, by him is he also brought into slavery.
BLB: promising to them freedom, themselves being slaves of corruption. For by what anyone has been subdued, by that also he is enslaved.

ÅB: når de lover dem frihet, men selv er slaver av fordervelsen; for den som er beseiret av noe, er slave av det.
OTB: lover dem frihet mens de selv er slaver av korrupsjon; for av hva som enn overvinner en person, av dette er de slaver.
B1930: idet de lover dem frihet, de som selv er vanartens træler; for det som en ligger under for, det er han og blitt træl av.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

John 8:34
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
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Romans 6:16–22
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
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Galatians 5:13
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
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Galatians 5:1
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
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1 Peter 2:16
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
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Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
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Romans 6:12–14
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
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Jeremiah 23:9
Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
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