Romans 6:20

for when you-have-been-being slaves of{the sin} you-have-been-being emancipated/liberated/released/free[adjective] to{the justice-ness}.

Garth's Hyper-literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19I-am-saying man-ly[i.e. humanly], through the weakness of{the flesh} of{you}, for even-as you-stand-aside the members of{you} slaves to{the unclean-ia} and to{the lawless-ia} into the lawless-ia, the-same-ly now stand-aside the members of{you} slaves to{the justice-ness} into holy-ization,

21So, what[?] fruit you-have-been-having then, upon to{which} now you-are-being-ashamed-upon, for the finish/completion of{the-there-s} [is] death.

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Cross References

John 8:34The Jesus responds to{same}, "Amen, amen I-am-saying to{you} that every, the doing the sin, is-being [a] slave of{the 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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