Romans 6:18

and being set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness -

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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;

19I speak in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature - just as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness.

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Cross References

Luke 1:74"That he we should be delivered out of the Hand of our enemies, And should serve him without fear,

John 8:36"So then, if the Son shall set you free, you will be free indeed.

Romans 6:14For sin shall not lord it over you; for you are not under the rule of law, but under the rule of grace.

Romans 6:22But now that you have been set free from sin and become slaves of God, the harvest-fruit which you are reaping tends to produce holiness, and it ends is life eternal.

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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