Romans 6:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.

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  • John 8:34 : 34 And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin.
  • Rom 6:12-13 : 12 For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires; 13 And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.
  • Josh 24:15 : 15 And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.
  • Rom 6:17 : 17 But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;
  • Rom 6:19-23 : 19 I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy. 20 When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death. 22 But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life. 23 For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

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  • Rom 6:17-23
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    17But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;

    18And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.

    19I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.

    20When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.

    21What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.

    22But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.

    23For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • Rom 6:10-15
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    10For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God.

    11Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

    12For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;

    13And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.

    14For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.

    15What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.

  • Eph 6:5-8
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    5Servants, do what is ordered by those who are your natural masters, having respect and fear for them, with all your heart, as to Christ;

    6Not only under your master's eye, as pleasers of men; but as servants of Christ, doing the pleasure of God from the heart;

    7Doing your work readily, as to the Lord, and not to men:

    8In the knowledge that for every good thing anyone does, he will have his reward from the Lord, If he is a servant or if he is free.

  • 1 Cor 7:22-23
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    75%

    22For he who was a servant when he became a Christian is the Lord's free man; and he who was free when he became a Christian is the Lord's servant.

    23It is the Lord who has made payment for you: be not servants of men.

  • John 8:34
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    34And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin.

  • Rom 6:6-7
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    6Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.

    7Because he who is dead is free from sin.

  • Gal 4:7-9
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    7So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then the heritage of God is yours.

    8But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods:

    9But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

  • Rom 7:5-6
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    5For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

    6But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

  • Col 3:22-24
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    22Servants, in all things do the orders of your natural masters; not only when their eyes are on you, as pleasers of men, but with all your heart, fearing the Lord:

    23Whatever you do, do it readily, as to the Lord and not to men;

    24Being certain that the Lord will give you the reward of the heritage: for you are the servants of the Lord Christ.

  • 2 Pet 2:19
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    19Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.

  • Rom 6:1-3
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    1What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace?

    2In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?

    3Or are you without the knowledge that all we who had baptism into Christ Jesus, had baptism into his death?

  • 1 Pet 2:16
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    16As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;

  • 2 Cor 10:6
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    6Being ready to give punishment to whatever is against his authority, after you have made it clear that you are completely under his control.

  • 1 Tim 6:1-2
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    1Let all who are servants under the yoke give all honour to their masters, so that no evil may be said against the name of God and his teaching.

    2And let those whose masters are of the faith have respect for them because they are brothers, working for them the more readily, because those who take part in the good work are of the faith and are dear. Give orders and teaching about these things.

  • 1 Cor 6:19-20
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    19Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

    20For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.

  • Rom 7:1
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    1Is it not clear, my brothers (I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law), that the law has power over a man as long as he is living?

  • Titus 2:9
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    9Servants are to be under the authority of their masters, pleasing them in all things, without argument;

  • Rom 8:12-13
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    12So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh:

    13For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

  • Rom 7:14
    71%

    14For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.

  • 1 Cor 6:15
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    15Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be.

  • Col 4:1
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    1Masters, give your servants what is right and equal, conscious that you have a Master in heaven.

  • Rom 8:2
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    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

  • Rom 14:8
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    8As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's.

  • Rom 5:21
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    21That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.