Romans 6:20

For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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.

21What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.

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Cross References

John 8:34Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to 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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