2 Peter 2:19 BSB — MannaFest

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Irenaeus

Against Heresies Book IV (202)

For as the serpent beguiled Eve, by promising her what he had not himself, so also do these men, by pretending [to possess] superior knowledge, and [to be acquainted with] ineffable mysteries; and, by promising that admittance which they speak of as taking place within the Pleroma, plunge those that believe them into death, rendering them apostates from Him who made them.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

While they promise them liberty - From needless restraints and scruples; from the bondage of the law. Themselves are slaves of corruption - Even sin, the vilest of all bondage.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἐλευθερίαν	eleutherian	freedom	G1657 →
αὐτοῖς	autois	them	G846 →
ἐπαγγελλόμενοι,	epangellomenoi	promising,	G1861 →
αὐτοὶ	autoi	themselves	G846 →
δοῦλοι	douloi	slaves	G1401 →
ὑπάρχοντες	huparchontes	being	G5225 →
τῆς	tēs	<the>	G3588 →
φθορᾶς·	phthoras	of corruption;	G5356 →
ᾧ	hō	By what	G3739 →
γάρ	gar	for	G1063 →
τις	tis	anyone	G5100 →
ἥττηται,	hēttētai	has been subdued,	G2274 →
τούτῳ	toutō	by that	G3778 →
δεδούλωται.	dedoulōtai	he has been enslaved.	G1402 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Galatians 5:1
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
leads to
- Galatians 5:13
  For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Peter 2:16
  Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Corinthians 3:17
  Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
- Romans 6:14
  For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
- John 8:32–36
  Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Through
Galatians 5:13
For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 9:19
  Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
- 1 Corinthians 8:9
  Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
- Romans 15:1–2
  We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.