Romans 6:16
Have you not known that to whom you present yourselves servants for obedience, servants you are to him to whom you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
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In Context
15What then? Will we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be!
Cross References
Matthew 6:24None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; you are not able to serve God and wealth.
John 8:34Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who is committing sin, is a servant of sin,
Romans 6:17And thanks to God, that you were servants of sin, and—were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were delivered up;
2 Peter 2:19promising liberty to them, themselves being servants of corruption, for by whom anyone has been overcome, he has been brought to servitude to this one also;
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 →