Romans 6:20

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

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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.

21What fruit then had you at that time in those things in which you are now ashamed? for the end of these things is death.

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Cross References

John 8:34Jesus responded to them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, That every one doing sin is the slave 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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