Romans 6:20

For when you were the bondservants of sin, you were under no sort of subjection to Righteousness.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19your human infirmity leads me to employ these familiar figures--and just as you once surrendered your faculties into bondage to Impurity and ever-increasing disregard of Law, so you must now surrender them into bondage to Righteousness ever advancing towards perfect holiness.

21At that time, then, what benefit did you get from conduct which you now regard with shame? Why, such things finally result in death.

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Cross References

John 8:34"In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that every one who commits 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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