Romans 6:17
But thanks to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but ye obeyed from the heart a model of doctrine for which ye were delivered.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
18And having been set free from sin, ye were made servile to righteousness
Cross References
Ezra 7:27Blessed be LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of LORD which is in Jerusalem,
Matthew 11:25Jesus having responded at that time, said, I extol thee, O Father, Lord of the heaven and the earth, because thou hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to the childlike.
Acts 28:15And from there the brothers, who heard these things about us, came for a meeting with us as far as Appius Forum and The Three Taverns, whom, when Paul saw, having expressed thanks to God, he took courage.
Romans 1:8Truly, I first express thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world.
Romans 15:18For I will not dare to speak anything of which Christ did not accomplish through me for the obedience of Gentiles, by word and work,
1 Corinthians 1:4I thank my God always about you, for the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,
Matthew Henry on Romans 6:2-23
On Sanctification. ( a. d. 58.) 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness… Read the whole commentary →