Romans 6:20

For when ye were the slaves of sin, ye were not the bondmen of righteousness.

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19I speak in a way common among men on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as ye once yielded your members as slaves to impurity and to iniquity, in order to commit iniquity, so now yield your members as bondmen to righteousness in order to become holy.

21What fruit then had ye at that time from those things of which ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

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Cross References

John 8:34Jesus answered them, Truly, truly do I say to you, Every one that committeth sin is a bond-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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