Romans 6:18

Set free from the control of sin, you became servants to righteousness.

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

In Context

17God 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.

19I can but speak as people do because of the weakness of your earthly nature. Once you offered every part of your bodies to the service of impurity, and of wickedness, which leads to further wickedness. Now, in the same way, offer them to the service of righteousness, which leads to holiness.

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Cross References

Psalms 119:32I will run in the way of your commandments, for you give me room of heart.

Luke 1:74that we should be rescued from the hands of our enemies,

John 8:36If, then, the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed!

Romans 6:14For sin will not lord it over you. You are living under the reign, not of Law, but of love.

Romans 6:22But now that you have been set free from the control of sin, and have become servants to God, the fruit that you reap is an ever increasing holiness, and the end 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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