Romans 6:20

For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity; so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification.

21What fruit therefore had you then in those things, of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.

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Cross References

John 8:34Jesus answered them: Amen, amen I say unto you: that whosoever committeth sin, 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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