Romans 6:20

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

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19-(I speak as among men, because of the infirmity of your flesh.)-As ye once gave up your members to the servitude of pollution and iniquity, so also now give ye up your members to the servitude of righteousness and sanctity.

21And what harvest had ye then, in that of which ye are now ashamed? For the result thereof is death.

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Cross References

John 8:34Jesus said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, That whoever committeth sin, is the servant 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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