2 Timothy 2:26

WEB

²⁶and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to do his will.

KJV

²⁶And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

BSB

²⁶Then they will come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who has taken them captive to his will.

FBV

²⁶In this way they may come to their senses and escape the devil's trap. For he has captured them and made them do whatever he wants.

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Extra References

1 Timothy 3:7

⁷Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

²⁵But the LORD says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children. ²⁶I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

Psalms 124:7

⁷Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

Isaiah 42:6-7

⁶“I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations, ⁷to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

Ephesians 5:14

¹⁴Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Isaiah 8:15

¹⁵Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”

Colossians 1:13

¹³who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

Revelation 20:2-3

²He seized the dragon, the old serpent, who is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth,^[+] and bound him for a thousand years, ³and cast him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.

Job 1:12

¹²The LORD said to Satan, “Behold, ^[+] all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

2 Peter 2:18-20

¹⁸For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error; ¹⁹promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

²⁰For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.