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- 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
- Rom 6:19-20 : 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members [as] servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members [as] servants to righteousness unto sanctification. 20 For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.
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- Rom 6:19-235 verses90%
19I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members [as] servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members [as] servants to righteousness unto sanctification.
20For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.
21What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
22But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.
23For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Rom 6:10-178 verses83%
10For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead {G3303} unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.
12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:
13neither present your members unto sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.
14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.
15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.
16Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves [as] servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, {G1161} ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;
- Rom 7:4-63 verses75%
4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, [even] to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.
5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
6But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein {G3739} we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
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- 1 Cor 7:21-233 verses74%
21Wast thou called being a bondservant? Care not for it: nay, even if {G2532} thou canst become free, use [it] rather.
22For he that was called in the Lord being a bondservant, is the Lord's freedman: likewise {G2532} he that was called being free, is Christ's bondservant.
23Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men.
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19promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.
- Rom 5:18-192 verses70%
18So then as through one trespass [the judgment came] unto all men to condemnation; even so through one act of righteousness [the free gift came] unto all men to justification of life.
19For as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one shall the many be made righteous.
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31Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the freewoman.