Romans 6:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Rom 6:16-17 : 16 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. 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;
  • 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.

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  • Rom 6:10-19
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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.

    16Are 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.

    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.

  • Rom 6:21-23
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    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 6:6-7
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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.

  • Rom 7:4-6
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    4In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

    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.

  • 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;

  • Gal 5:1
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    1Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.

  • 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 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.

  • 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.

  • 1 Cor 7:21-23
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    21If you were a servant when you became a Christian, let it not be a grief to you; but if you have a chance to become free, make use of it.

    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 8:36
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    36If then the son makes you free, you will be truly free.

  • 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.

  • Gal 5:13
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    13Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

  • Gal 2:17
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    17But if, while we were desiring to get righteousness through Christ, we ourselves were seen to be sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? In no way!

  • Rom 3:24
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    24And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:

  • Gal 5:4
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    4You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.

  • Rom 6:1-2
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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?

  • Rom 3:20
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    20Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • Gal 5:18
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    18But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

  • Eph 2:1
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    1And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,

  • Eph 6:5
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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;

  • Col 3:7
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    7Among whom you were living in the past, when you did such things.

  • 2 Cor 5:21
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    21For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

  • Rom 3:9
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    9What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;

  • Gal 4:3
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    3So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;

  • Eph 6:7
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    7Doing your work readily, as to the Lord, and not to men:

  • Rom 7:9
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    9And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;

  • Rom 5:19
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    19Because, as numbers of men became sinners through the wrongdoing of one man, even so will great numbers get righteousness through the keeping of the word of God by one man.

  • Gal 4:31
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    31So, brothers, we are not children of the servant-woman, but of the free woman.

  • 1 Cor 1:30
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    30But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy: