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promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by the same is he also brought into bondage.
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The Snare of False Liberty
Commentators unanimously explain that the "liberty" offered by the false teachers is a dangerous deception. It is not the true freedom found in Christ, but a license for sin and freedom from moral restraint. This promise of carnal liberty is a snare designed to appeal to fleshly desires, ultimately leading people away from God's righteous path.
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2 Peter
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18th Century
Presbyterian
While they promise them liberty. True religion always promises and produces liberty (); but the particular liberty which these persons see…
Liberty (ελευθεριαν). Promising "personal liberty," that is license, after the fashion of advocates of liquor today, not the freed…
19th Century
Anglican
Promise them liberty.—A specimen of the great swelling words—loud, high-sounding talk about liberty. The doctrines of Sim…
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They promise “freedom,” perhaps from any law or restraint of the flesh. Paul ran into similar error—“Everything is permissible for me” ([Reference …
16th Century
Protestant
While they promise them liberty. He shows their inconsistency: they falsely promised liberty while they themselves served sin and were in …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
While they promise them liberty Not Christian liberty, which lies in a freedom from sin, its dominion, guilt, and co…
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The word of truth is the water of life, which refreshes the souls that receive it; but deceivers spread and promote error, and are shown to be empt…
