Romans 6:18

but having been made free from sin, ye became servants unto righteousness.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17But thanks be unto God, that whereas ye were servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart the type of teaching into which ye were delivered:

19I speak after the manner of a man on account of the weakness of your carnality. For as ye presented your members as servants unto impurity and lawlessness pursuant to lawlessness, so now present your members servants unto righteousness pursuant to sanctification.

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Cross References

Luke 1:74to grant unto us, having been delivered out of the hand of our enemies, to serve Him without fear,

John 8:36If therefore the Son may make you free, you shall be free indeed.

Romans 6:14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.

Romans 6:22But now having been made free from sin, and having become servants unto God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, 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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