Romans 6:20

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

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19As among men I speak, because of the infirmity of your flesh, that as you have prepared your members for the service of uncleanness and of iniquity, so also now prepare ye your members for the service of righteousness and of holiness.

21And what product had you then from that of which to-day you are ashamed? For the end of it is death.

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Cross References

John 8:34Jeshu saith to them, Amen I tell you, Whoever doeth sin is the 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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