Romans 6:16

Do you not know that when you surrender yourselves as slaves to any one to obey him, you are his slaves whom you obey; whether it be sin, whose end is death, or obedience, whose end is righteousness?

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

In Context

15What then? Shall we commit an act of sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not.

17But God be thanked that you who were once the slaves of sin have obeyed from your hearts that type of teaching to which you were appointed;

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Cross References

Matthew 6:24"No slave can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will pay heed to the one and despise the other. You cannot be the slaves both of God and of gold.

John 8:34"In solemn truth I tell you," Jesus replied, "every one who commits sin is a slave

Romans 6:17But God be thanked that you who were once the slaves of sin have obeyed from your hearts that type of teaching to which you were appointed;

2 Peter 2:19They promise them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of rottenness! (For indeed a man is the slave of anything which masters him.)

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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