2 Peter 2:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.

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  • John 8:34 : 34 And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin.
  • Gal 5:13 : 13 Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.
  • 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;
  • Gal 5:1 : 1 Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.
  • 2 Pet 2:20 : 20 For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.
  • 2 Tim 2:26 : 26 And so they may get themselves free from the net of the Evil One, being made the prisoners of the Lord's servant, for the purpose of God.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.
  • Rom 6:12-14 : 12 For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires; 13 And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.
  • Rom 6:16-22 : 16 Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness. 17 But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed; 18 And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness. 19 I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy. 20 When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death. 22 But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.
  • Isa 28:1 : 1 Ho! crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim, and the dead flower of his glory which is on the head of those who are overcome by strong drink!
  • Jer 23:9 : 9 About the prophets. My heart is broken in me, all my bones are shaking; I am like a man full of strong drink, like a man overcome by wine; because of the Lord, and because of his holy words.

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  • 2 Pet 2:18
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    18For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

  • 2 Pet 2:20-21
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    20For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.

    21For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it.

  • 1 Pet 2:16
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    16As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;

  • 2 Tim 2:26
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    26And so they may get themselves free from the net of the Evil One, being made the prisoners of the Lord's servant, for the purpose of God.

  • 2 Tim 3:6
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    6For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires,

  • Rom 6:16
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    16Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.

  • Rom 6:18-20
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    18And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.

    19I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.

    20When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.

  • Gal 2:4
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    4And that because of the false brothers let in secretly, who came searching out our free condition which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might make servants of us;

  • Gal 5:1
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    1Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.

  • 2 Pet 2:2-3
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    2And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.

    3And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

  • Rom 8:21
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    21That all living things will be made free from the power of death and will have a part with the free children of God in glory.

  • 2 Pet 1:4
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    4And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh.

  • John 8:34
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    34And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin.

  • 1 Cor 7:22-23
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    22For he who was a servant when he became a Christian is the Lord's free man; and he who was free when he became a Christian is the Lord's servant.

    23It is the Lord who has made payment for you: be not servants of men.

  • 2 Pet 2:12-15
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    12But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;

    13For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;

    14Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;

    15Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;

  • 2 Cor 11:20
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    20You put up with a man if he makes servants of you, if he makes profit out of you, if he makes you prisoners, if he puts himself in a high place, if he gives you blows on the face.

  • 1 Cor 9:19
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    19For though I was free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that more might have salvation.

  • Rom 16:18
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    18For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.

  • Eph 4:19
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    19Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.

  • Rom 6:22
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    22But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

  • Jas 1:14-15
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    14But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.

    15Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

  • Gal 4:8-9
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    8But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods:

    9But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

  • Titus 2:9
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    9Servants are to be under the authority of their masters, pleasing them in all things, without argument;

  • 2 Cor 11:3
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    3But I have a fear, that in some way, as Eve was tricked by the deceit of the snake, your minds may be turned away from their simple and holy love for Christ.

  • Rom 1:23-24
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    23And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.

    24For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:

  • Heb 2:15
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    15And let those who all their lives were in chains because of their fear of death, go free.

  • Col 2:4
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    4I say this so that you may not be turned away by any deceit of words.

  • Gal 5:13
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    13Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.

  • 1 John 2:26
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    26I am writing these things to you about those whose purpose is that you may be turned out of the true way.

  • Jude 1:10-11
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    10But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.

    11A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah.

  • 2 Pet 3:17
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    17For this reason, my loved ones, having knowledge of these things before they take place, take care that you are not turned away by the error of the uncontrolled, so falling from your true faith.

  • Jer 34:11
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    11But later, they took back again the servants and the servant-girls whom they had let go free, and put them again under the yoke as servants and servant-girls.

  • Gal 6:8
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    8Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.

  • Eph 4:22
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    22That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

  • Jude 1:4
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    4For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Tim 2:17
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    17And their words will be like poisoned wounds in the flesh: such are Hymenaeus and Philetus;

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you: