Romans 6:20

for when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.

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

In Context

19I speak in a human [way], because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as you presented your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness—to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to righteousness—to sanctification,

21What fruit, therefore, were you having then, in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those [is] death.

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Cross References

John 8:34Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who is committing sin, is a 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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