Romans 6:16
Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.
Bible in Basic English
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In Context
15What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.
Cross References
Matthew 6:24No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
John 8:34And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin.
Romans 6:17But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;
2 Peter 2:19Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.
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 →