Sign up for the Verse of the Day. Comp. 2 Peter 2:19 Promising, freedom to them, they themselves, being all the while, slaves of corruption, - for, by whom one hath been defeated, by the same, hath he become enslaved, - Jump to: Bible Study Tools • Parallel Bible Verse • Bible Contextual Overview • Bible Verse … 19 They promise them (A)freedom, (B)but they themselves are slaves[a] of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. From hupo and archomai; to begin under, i.e. They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. English Standard Version. 2 Peter 2:20. 1 Simeon 1 Peter, a servant 2 and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a a faith of equal standing with ours b by the righteousness of our c God and Savior Jesus Christ: 2 d May grace and peace be multiplied to you e in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. Version. Verb - Perfect Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular, Personal / Relative Pronoun - Dative Masculine Singular. Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative Masculine 3rd Person Plural, Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural. Commentary. 2 Peter 2:11 Many manuscripts beings in the presence of; 2 Peter 2:13 Some manuscripts in their love feasts The preposition “in” points to the sphere in which the enticement takes place; “through” should be reserved for “wantonness” (see Note on 2 Peter 2:2), which is the bait used to entice. For. Barnes' Notes on the Bible. They promise them liberty, when they themselves are the slaves of depravity and defilement--for by whatever anyone is made inferior or worse or is … For you are a slave to whatever controls you. From phtheiro; decay, i.e. Vanquish; by implication, to rate lower. 2 Peter 2:4 Some manuscripts in gloomy dungeons; 2 Peter 2:10 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verse 18. Tyndale, Cranmer, and Geneva have "bond-servants;" Rheims "slaves." A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason. 19 promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved. 2 Peter 2:19 Context. 2 Peter 2:19 Parallel. Corruption, destruction, decay, rottenness, decomposition. Freedom, liberty, especially: a state of freedom from slavery. 2 Peter 2:19-21 King James Version (KJV). John 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. 2 Peter 2:19 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995) promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved. 2 Peter 2:19 Hebrew Bible חפשה יבטיחו להם והם בעצמם עבדים לשחת כי האיש עבד לאשר נכבש ממנו׃ 2 Peter 2:19 Aramaic NT: Peshitta ܘܚܐܪܘܬܐ ܠܗܘܢ ܡܫܬܘܕܝܢ ܟܕ ܗܢܘܢ ܥܒܕܐ ܐܝܬܝܗܘܢ ܕܚܒܠܐ ܠܗܘ … 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. (Comp. 2 Peter 2:19 ESV. 2 Peter 2:19 KJ21 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by the same is he brought into bondage. (F) Confirming One’s Calling and Election. 2 Peter 2:19 Parallel Commentaries. Read Full Chapter. For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. Gain a concise, fundamental grasp of what the Bible is all about. 2 Peter 2:19, ESV: "They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. Isaiah 28:1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! Read verse in King James Version Read verse in Good News Translation 2 Peter 2:19. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. 2 Peter 2:19. 2P iiP ii Pet). Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, NT Letters: 2 Peter 2:19 Promising them liberty while they themselves (2 Pet. Change Language {{#items}} {{local_title}} Commentary. Read more Share. 2 Peter 2:19 ESV - They promise them freedom, but they - Bible Gateway. Themselves are slaves of corruption - Even sin, the vilest of all bondage. Galatians 5:1,13 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage…. 19 They promise them yfreedom, zbut they themselves are slaves8 of corruption. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 2 Peter 2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 2 Peter 2:19 NIV They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for “people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.” NIV: New International Version 2 Peter 2:19-22 English Standard Version (ESV) 19 They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves[ a] of corruption. From eleutheros; freedom. Servants of corruption.--Better, bond-servants, or slaves of corruption. Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Plural. 2 Peter 2:19 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] 2 Peter 2:19, NIV: "They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity--for 'people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.'" Ruin. Jeremiah 23:9 Mine 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 hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness. Brought in bondage.--Or, enslaved. Read more Share Copy Show footnotes A service of Faithlife / Logos Bible Software . 2 Peter 2:19 Parallel. For by what anyone has been subdued, by that also he is enslaved. 17 These are welles without water, cloudes that are caried with a tempest, to whom the mist of darkenesse is reserued for euer. 2 Peter 2:19 KJV While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. To those who through the righteousness(C)of our God and Savior Jesus Christ(D)have received a faith as precious as ours: 2 Grace and peace be yours in abundance(E)through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. 1 Peter 2:16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 2:19 While they promise them liberty - From needless restraints and scruples; from the bondage of the law. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. Ἐλευθερίαν, liberty) so as neither to he afraid of the devil, nor to loathe the flesh.— ᾧ γάρ τις ἥττηται) for he by whom any one has permitted himself to be overcome, and has yielded himself vanquished.— τούτῳ καὶ δεδούλωται, by him also is he held in bondage) 1 Samuel 17:9. Barnes's 2-peter 2:19 Bible Commentary While they promise them liberty - True religion always promises and produces liberty (see the notes at John 8:36), but the particular liberty which these persons seem to have promised, was freedom from what they regarded as needless restraint, or from strict and narrow views of religion. The content of their great … 2 Peter 2:19 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of 1 corruption; q for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into 2 bondage. For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into … promising them freedom, themselves being slaves of corruption. Cancel. 2 Peter 2:20 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] 2 Peter 2:20, NIV: "If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning." 18 For when they speake great svelling words of vanitie, they alure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonnesse, those that were cleane escaped from them who liue in errour. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. to engage to do something, to assert something respecting oneself. 2 Peter 2:19 They promise them freedom while they themselves are slaves of destructive habits - for we are slaves of anything that has conquered us. For of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 2 Peter 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. KJV: King James Version Wesley's Notes on the Bible. They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved." license, the liberty to do as one pleases’ (Thayer p. 204). 2 Peter 2:19 ‘promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved.’ ‘promising them freedom’-‘fancied liberty, i.e. We seem here to have an echo of John 8:34 (see Notes there): "Every one who continues to commit sin is the slave of sin," words which St. Peter may have heard. 2 Peter 2:19 New American Standard Bible (NASB). Our translators have often done well in translating the Greek word for "slave" by "servant" (see Note on 2Peter 1:1), but here the full force of the ignominious term should be given. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV: English Standard Version 2016 . Romans 6:16-20, which the writer may also have had in his mind. King James Bible. enslaved, (b) (as noun) a (male) slave. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 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There is nothing improbable in St. Peter being well acquainted with the Epistle to the Romans during the last years of his life; the improbability would rather be in supposing that he did not know it. Read more Share Copy Romans 6:12-14,16-22 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof…. 2 Peter 2:19 19 promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for a by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved. 2P iiP ii Pet) From epi and the base of aggelos; to announce upon, i.e. 17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. He, she, it, they, them, same. English Standard Version (ESV), For the contextual rendering of the Greek word. Through the lusts of the flesh.—Better, in the lusts of the flesh (as in 2 Peter 2:3, and 2 Peter 1:1-2; 2 Peter 1:4; 2 Peter 1:13). Confirm Your Calling and Election. 2 Peter 2:19. (a) (as adj.) Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Plural. From the same as hetton; to make worse, i.e. 2 Peter Greeting. 2 Peter 2:19 Context 16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet. From deo; a slave. Come into existence; expletively, to exist (verb). For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. 2 Peter Chapter 2 Verse 19 Alphabetical: a are by corruption depravity enslaved for freedom has he him is man mastered of overcome promise promising slave slaves them themselves They this to what whatever while NT Letters: 2 Peter 2:19 Promising them liberty while they themselves (2 Pet. Share. 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