Bible Cross References
they promise
Galatians 5:1
Stand fast 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 cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.
they themselves
John 8:34
Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits 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 [leading] to death, or of obedience [leading] to righteousness?
17
But God be thanked that [though] you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.
18
And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
19
I speak in human [terms] because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members [as] slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness [leading] to [more] lawlessness, so now present your members [as] slaves [of] righteousness for holiness.
20
For when you were slaves of 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 of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving 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 pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter 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 verdant valleys, To 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 the LORD, And because of His holy words.
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.