Romans 6:20

For when ye were bondmen of sin, ye were uninhibited by righteousness.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

In Context

19(I speak man-like because of the weakness of your flesh). For as ye presented your body-parts servile to uncleanness, and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present your body-parts servile to righteousness for sanctification.

21What fruit therefore did ye have then, of which things ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

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Cross References

John 8:34Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, that every man who does the sin is a bondman of the sin.

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 →

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