Verse 34

Jesus answered them,“I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.
  • Rom 6:16 : 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.
  • Prov 5:22 : 22 The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.
  • Rom 6:19-20 : 19 (I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.
  • Rom 6:6 : 6 We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
  • Rom 6:12 : 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,
  • 1 John 3:8-9 : 8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil. 9 Everyone who has been fathered by God does not practice sin, because God’s seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God. 10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness– the one who does not love his fellow Christian– is not of God.
  • 1 Kgs 21:25 : 25 (There had never been anyone like Ahab, who was firmly committed to doing evil in the sight of the LORD, urged on by his wife Jezebel.
  • Rom 7:14 : 14 For we know that the law is spiritual– but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.
  • Rom 7:25 : 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
  • Rom 8:21 : 21 that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.
  • Eph 2:2 : 2 in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the domain of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,
  • John 3:3 : 3 Jesus replied,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
  • Acts 8:23 : 23 For I see that you are bitterly envious and in bondage to sin.”
  • Matt 5:18 : 18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter will pass from the law until everything takes place.