Romans 6:20

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

1770 John Worsley NT

In The King James Version

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: as ye have yielded your bodies servants to impurity and iniquity to work iniquity; so now present your bodies servants to righteousness, unto holiness.

21What fruit therefore had ye then in the things, which ye are now ashamed of? 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 maketh a practice of 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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