Romans 6:18

and being made free from sin, you have become the servants of righteousness.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

In Context

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;

19I speak of what is common among men, oil account of the weakness of your flesh: for as you have presented your members as servants to uncleanness, and to lawlessness, in order to lawlessness, so now present your members as servants to righteousness, in order to holiness.

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Cross References

Luke 1:74that he would grant to us, that being delivered from the hands of our enemies, we might serve him without fear,

John 8:36Therefore, if the Son make you free, you shall be free indeed.

Romans 6:14For sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under law, but under grace.

Romans 6:22But now, since you have been made free from sin, and have become servants to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, eternal life.

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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