Romans 6:20

When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.

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

In Context

19I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.

21What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.

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Cross References

John 8:34And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of 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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