Romans 6:18

Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become bondmen to righteousness.

Darby Translation

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 ye were bondmen of sin, but have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which ye were instructed.

19I speak humanly on account of the weakness of your flesh. For even as ye have yielded your members in bondage to uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now yield your members in bondage to righteousness unto holiness.

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Cross References

Psalms 119:32I will run the way of thy commandments when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

Isaiah 26:13Jehovah our God, other lords than thee have had dominion over us; by thee only will we make mention of thy name.

Luke 1:74to give us, that, saved out of the hand of our enemies, we should serve him without fear

John 8:36If therefore the Son shall set you free, ye shall be really free.

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

Romans 6:22But *now*, having got your freedom from sin, and having become bondmen to God, ye have your fruit unto 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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