Romans 6:20

For when ye were the seruants of sinne, ye were freed from righteousnesse.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19I speake after the maner of man, because of the infirmitie of your flesh: for as yee haue giuen your members seruants to vncleannes and to iniquitie, to commit iniquitie, so now giue your mebers seruants vnto righteousnesse in holinesse.

21What fruit had ye then in those things, whereof ye are nowe ashamed? For the ende of those things is death.

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Cross References

John 8:34Iesus answered them, Verely, verely I say vnto you, that whosoeuer committeth sinne, is the seruant of sinne.

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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