Romans 6:20

While you were still servants of sin, you were free as regards righteousness.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

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.

21But what were the fruits that you reaped from those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of such things is death.

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Cross References

John 8:34“In truth I tell you,” replied Jesus, “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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