Bible Cross References
they promise
Galatians 5:1
Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
Galatians 5:13
For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
1 Peter 2:16
as free, yet not using liberty as a pretext for evil, but as bondservants of God.
they themselves
John 8:34
Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Everyone practicing 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
And do not 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 have dominion 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 slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17
But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you.
18
And having been set free from sin, you became slaves to righteousness.
19
I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to uncleanness, and to iniquity unto iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness unto sanctification.
20
For when you were slaves to sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
21
What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22
But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end, eternal life.
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.
overcome
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the full true knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the end is worse for them than the beginning.
Isaiah 28:1
Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower which is at the head of the lush valleys of those who are overcome with wine!
Jeremiah 23:9
My heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Jehovah, and because of the Words of His holiness.
2 Timothy 2:26
and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.