Romans 6:18

You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

In Context

17But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.

19I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

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Cross References

Psalms 119:32I run in the path of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.

Isaiah 26:13O LORD our God, other lords besides You have ruled over us, but Your name alone do we confess.

Luke 1:74deliverance from the hands of our enemies, that we may serve Him without fear,

John 8:36So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

Romans 6:14For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

Romans 6:22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.

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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