2 Peter 2:18-20

American Standard Version

¹⁸ For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error; ¹⁹ promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of ^[a]whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage. ²⁰ For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of ^[b]the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.