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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Psalms 73 8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
Amos 6 7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
Isaiah 42 22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
Psalms 64 5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
Lamentations 5 8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
Proverbs 11 3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
Galatians 2 4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
Isaiah 46 2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
Ezekiel 33 31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
Psalms 26 10 In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
Psalms 69 22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
Jeremiah 34 17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Proverbs 29 18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Jeremiah 6 28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
Leviticus 25 42 For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
Ecclesiastes 7 7 Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
Psalms 146 7 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
Deuteronomy 32 5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
Hosea 8 4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
Job 35 9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
Micah 2 2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Proverbs 22 16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
1 Peter 2 18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
Jeremiah 25 14 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
1 Corinthians 10 29 Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?
2 Peter 2 10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
Revelation 9 19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.
2 Corinthians 3 17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Proverbs 14 31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
2 Peter 2 18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Galatians 5 1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Galatians 5 13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
1 Corinthians 7 22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
Proverbs 22 7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Psalms 106 36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
Romans 8 21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Proverbs 6 2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
Ezekiel 18 7 And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
Daniel 11 14 And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall.
Exodus 5 16 There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.
1 Corinthians 7 21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
Ecclesiastes 5 8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
Nehemiah 5 15 But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
Isaiah 3 5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
Proverbs 1 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Proverbs 29 12 If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
Leviticus 25 44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
Ezekiel 3 26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.
Isaiah 29 21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
Hosea 4 18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.