Romans 6:20

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

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

In Context

19I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as all of you have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

21What fruit had all of you then in those things whereof all of you are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

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Cross References

John 8:34Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever commits 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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