2 Timothy 2:26

American Standard Version (1901)

and they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him unto his will.

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  • Isa 49:25-26 : 25 But thus saith Jehovah, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. 26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
  • 1 Tim 3:7 : 7 Moreover he must have good testimony from them that are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
  • Ps 124:7 : 7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: The snare is broken, and we are escaped.
  • Isa 8:15 : 15 And many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
  • Isa 28:13 : 13 Therefore shall the word of Jehovah be unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
  • Isa 42:6-7 : 6 I, Jehovah, have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thy hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; 7 to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house.
  • Matt 12:28-29 : 28 But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then is the kingdom of God come upon you. 29 Or how can one enter into the house of the strong [man], and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong [man] ? and then he will spoil his house.
  • Luke 11:21 : 21 When the strong [man] fully armed guardeth his own court, his goods are in peace:
  • John 13:27 : 27 And after the sop, then entered Satan into him. Jesus therefore saith unto him, What thou doest, do quickly.
  • Rev 20:2-3 : 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, 3 and cast him into the abyss, and shut [it], and sealed [it] over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years should be finished: after this he must be loosed for a little time.
  • 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
  • 2 Pet 2:18-20 : 18 For, uttering great swelling [words] of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error; 19 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. 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.
  • Rev 12:9 : 9 And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.
  • Col 1:13 : 13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;
  • 2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 [ even he], whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie: 12 that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
  • 1 Tim 1:20 : 20 of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered unto Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
  • Acts 5:3 : 3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back [part] of the price of the land?
  • Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak [this] to move you to shame.
  • Luke 15:17 : 17 But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger!
  • Luke 22:31-32 : 31 Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat: 32 but I made supplication for thee, that thy faith fail not; and do thou, when once thou hast turned again, establish thy brethren.
  • John 13:2 : 2 And during supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's [son], to betray him,
  • Isa 53:12 : 12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bare the sin of many, and [ made intercession for the transgressors.
  • Job 1:12 : 12 And Jehovah said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thy hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah.
  • Job 2:6 : 6 And Jehovah said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand; only spare his life.
  • 2 Cor 2:11 : 11 that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

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  • 25 in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth,

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    18 For, uttering great swelling [words] of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;

    19 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.

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

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

  • 2 Tim 3:6-7
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    6 For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,

    7 ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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    9 [ even he], whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

    10 and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

    11 And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie:

    12 that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

  • 11 that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

  • 1 Tim 3:6-7
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    6 not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

    7 Moreover he must have good testimony from them that are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

  • 7 Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

  • 20 of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered unto Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

  • 4 and that because of the false brethren privily brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

  • 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.

  • 12 And those by the way side are they that have heard; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.

  • 14 that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

  • 27 But no one can enter into the house of the strong [man], and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong [man] ; and then he will spoil his house.

  • 12 But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed,

  • 1 But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

  • 2 wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;

  • 4 in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn [upon them] .

  • 15 for already some are turned aside after Satan.

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    2 And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of.

    3 And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.

  • 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

  • 9 the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;

  • 4 This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

  • 8 Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,

  • 5 to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

  • 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

  • 26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that would lead you astray.

  • 27 neither give place to the devil.

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    16 as also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as [they do] also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

    17 Ye therefore, beloved, knowing [these things] beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness.

  • Heb 2:14-15
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    14 Since then the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same; that through death he might bring to nought him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

    15 and might deliver all them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

  • 9 But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition.

  • Job 18:8-10
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    8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils.

    9 A gin shall take [him] by the heel, [And] a snare shall lay hold on him.

    10 A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way.

  • 2 Cor 10:5-6
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    5 casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

    6 and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be made full.

  • 14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging [them] in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.

  • 6 And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.

  • 14 And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light.

  • 9 [ Exhort] servants to be in subjection to their own masters, [and] to be well-pleasing [to them] in all things; not gainsaying;