Bible Cross References
they promise
Galatians 5:1
Freedom is what we have---Christ has set us free! Stand, then, as free people, and do not allow yourselves to become slaves again.
Galatians 5:13
As for you, my friends, you were called to be free. But do not let this freedom become an excuse for letting your physical desires control you. Instead, let love make you serve one another.
1 Peter 2:16
Live as free people; do not, however, use your freedom to cover up any evil, but live as God's slaves.
they themselves
John 8:34
Jesus said to them, "I am telling you the truth: everyone who sins is a slave of sin.
Romans 6:12-14
12
Sin must no longer rule in your mortal bodies, so that you obey the desires of your natural self.
13
Nor must you surrender any part of yourselves to sin to be used for wicked purposes. Instead, give yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life, and surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes.
14
Sin must not be your master; for you do not live under law but under God's grace.
Romans 6:16-22
16
Surely you know that when you surrender yourselves as slaves to obey someone, you are in fact the slaves of the master you obey---either of sin, which results in death, or of obedience, which results in being put right with God.
17
But thanks be to God! For though at one time you were slaves to sin, you have obeyed with all your heart the truths found in the teaching you received.
18
You were set free from sin and became the slaves of righteousness.
19
(I use everyday language because of the weakness of your natural selves.) At one time you surrendered yourselves entirely as slaves to impurity and wickedness for wicked purposes. In the same way you must now surrender yourselves entirely as slaves of righteousness for holy purposes.
20
When you were the slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.
21
What did you gain from doing the things that you are now ashamed of ? The result of those things is death!
22
But now you have been set free from sin and are the slaves of God. Your gain is a life fully dedicated to him, and the result is eternal life.
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and wrong. We were slaves to passions and pleasures of all kinds. We spent our lives in malice and envy; others hated us and we hated them.
overcome
2 Peter 2:20
If people have escaped from the corrupting forces of the world through their knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and then are again caught and conquered by them, such people are in worse condition at the end than they were at the beginning.
Isaiah 28:1
The kingdom of Israel is doomed! Its glory is fading like the crowns of flowers on the heads of its drunken leaders. Their proud heads are well perfumed, but there they lie, dead drunk.
Jeremiah 23:9
My heart is crushed, and I am trembling. Because of the LORD, because of his holy words, I am like a man who is drunk, someone who has had too much wine.
2 Timothy 2:26
And then they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the Devil, who had caught them and made them obey his will.