Romans 6:16
Know you not, that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether of sin that leads to death, or of obedience that leads to righteousness?
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? It can not be.
Cross References
Matthew 6:24No one can serve two masters: for he will either hate the one and love the other; or he will hold to the one, and neglect the other. You can not serve God and riches.
John 8:34Jesus answered them: Verily, verily I say to you, whoever works sin is the servant of sin.
Romans 6:17But thanks be to God, that though you were the servants of sin, yet you have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching, in which you have been instructed;
2 Peter 2:19While they promise them freedom, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for by whatever any man is overcome, he is also enslaved.
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 →