Bible Cross References
they promise
Galatians 5:1
Stand fast therefore in the freedom in which Christ has made us free, and do not be loaded down again with a yoke of bondage.
Galatians 5:13
For you, brothers were called to freedom; only do not use freedom for an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
1 Peter 2:16
as free, yet not using freedom as a cover for wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
they themselves
John 8:34
Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I say to you, that everyone that practices sin is a slave of sin.
Romans 6:12-14
12
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts,
13
nor present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
14
For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
Romans 6:16-22
16
Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to whom you obey, whether of sin [resulting] in death, or of obedience [resulting] in righteousness?
17
But thanks be to God, that though you used to be slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from [your] heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.
18
And having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.
19
I speak in human terms on account of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to uncleanness, and to lawlessness [resulting] in [more] lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness [resulting] in sanctification.
20
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
21
So what fruit did you have then of which [things] you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22
But now having been freed from sin, and having become enslaved to God, you have your fruit [resulting] in sanctification, and the end, eternal life.
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, being deceived, being enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
overcome
2 Peter 2:20
For if having escaped from the corruptions of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, yet by these, having become entangled they are defeated, the latter end has become worse for them than the first.
Isaiah 28:1
Woe to the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, the flower that has fallen from the glory of the top of the fertile mountain, they that are drunken without wine.
Jeremiah 23:9
My heart is broken within me; all my bones are shaken. I have become as a broken down man, and as a man overcome with wine, because of the Lord, and because of the excellence of His glory.
2 Timothy 2:26
and they regain their senses [and escape] out of the snare of the devil, having been captured alive by him to do his will.