Romans 6:19
I 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.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
18and being made free from sin, you have become the servants of righteousness.
20For when you were the servants of sin, you were free with respect to righteousness.
Cross References
Romans 3:5But if our unrighteousness causes the righteousness of God to be better known, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous, who inflicts punishment? I speak as a man.
Romans 6:16Know 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?
Romans 15:1But we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of those who are not strong, and not to please ourselves.
1 Corinthians 6:11And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 15:32If, to speak as a man, I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.
Ephesians 2:2in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is actively at work in the sons of disobedience:
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 →