Romans 6:16
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law but under grace? Far be it!
Cross References
Matthew 6:24No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or he will hold to one and despise the other. Ye can not serve God and Mammon.
John 8:34Jesus answered them: Verily, verily, I say to you, every one who commits sin is a servant of sin.
Romans 6:17But thanks be to God, that ye were servants of sin, but obeyed from the heart that form of teaching which was delivered to you[6:18];
2 Peter 2:19promising them liberty, while they themselves are servants of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by the same he is also brought into bondage.
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 →