G2274–ἡσσάομαι–hēssaomai

For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

ἡσσώθητε hēssōthēte “you were inferior”

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.

ἥττηται, hēttētai “has been subdued,”

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

ἡττῶνται, hēttōntai “they are subdued,”