Romans 6:20

When you were slaves to sin you were not required to do what's right.

Free Bible Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19I'm using this everyday example because your human thinking is limited. Just as you once enslaved yourselves to immorality, piling up sin upon sin, now you must enslave yourselves to what is pure and right.

21But what were the results back then? Aren't you ashamed of the things you did? Such things that lead to death!

Read all of Romans 6

Cross References

John 8:34Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Romans 6:20