Romans 6:20

For though you were once the servants of sin, you have become the children of justice.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

19I am speaking in human terms because of the infirmity of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of your body to serve impurity and iniquity, for the sake of iniquity, so also have you now yielded the parts of your body to serve justice, for the sake of sanctification.

21But what fruit did you hold at that time, in those things about which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

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Cross References

John 8:34Jesus answered them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, that everyone who commits sin is a slave 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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