Romans 6:17
God be thanked that, though you were once servants of sin, yet you learned to give hearty obedience to that form of doctrine under which you were placed.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
In Context
18Set free from the control of sin, you became servants to righteousness.
Cross References
Matthew 11:25At that same time Jesus uttered the words, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that, though you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, you have revealed them to the childlike!
Acts 28:15The followers there had heard about us, and came out as far as the Market of Appius and the Three Taverns to meet us. At sight of them Paul thanked God and was much cheered.
Romans 1:8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because the report of your faith is spreading throughout the world.
Romans 15:18For I will not dare to speak of anything but what Christ has done through me to win the obedience of the Gentiles –
1 Corinthians 1:4I always thank God for you. I thank him for the blessing bestowed on you in Christ Jesus.
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 →