Romans 6:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;
  • Rom 6:18 : 18 And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.
  • John 8:32 : 32 And you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free.
  • Titus 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of God, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, in agreement with the faith of the saints of God and the full knowledge of what is true in harmony with religion,
  • Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
  • 1 Cor 7:22 : 22 For 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.
  • 2 Cor 3:17 : 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there the heart is free.
  • Gal 1:10 : 10 Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
  • Gal 5:13 : 13 Because 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.
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,
  • Eph 5:9 : 9 (Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),
  • Phil 1:11 : 11 Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
  • Phil 4:17 : 17 Not that I am looking for an offering, but for fruit which may be put to your credit.
  • Col 1:10 : 10 Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
  • Col 4:12 : 12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his love, ever taking thought for you in his prayers, that you may be complete and fully certain of all the purpose of God.
  • Jas 1:1 : 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends words of love to the twelve tribes of the Jews living in all parts of the earth.
  • 1 Pet 1:9 : 9 For so you have the true end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
  • Rev 7:13 : 13 And one of the rulers made answer, saying to me, These who have on white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?
  • John 15:2 : 2 He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit.
  • John 15:16 : 16 You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.
  • Rom 6:14 : 14 For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.
  • Rom 6:21 : 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.
  • Rom 7:4 : 4 In 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.
  • Rom 7:25 : 25 I give praise to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I am a servant to the law of God, but with my flesh to the law of sin.
  • Gen 50:17 : 17 You are to say to Joseph, Let the wrongdoing of your brothers be overlooked, and the evil they did to you: now, if it is your pleasure, let the sin of the servants of your father's God have forgiveness. And at these words, Joseph was overcome with weeping.
  • Num 23:10 : 10 Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob or the number of the thousands of Israel? May my death be the death of the upright and my last end like his!
  • Job 1:8 : 8 And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil?
  • Ps 37:37-38 : 37 Give attention to the good man, and take note of the upright; because the end of that man is peace. 38 But as for the sinners, they will be cut off together; the end of the wrongdoers is destruction.
  • Ps 86:2 : 2 Keep my soul, for I am true to you; O my God, give salvation to your servant, whose hope is in you.
  • Ps 92:14 : 14 They will give fruit even when they are old; they will be fertile and full of growth;
  • Ps 143:12 : 12 And in your mercy put an end to my haters, and send destruction on all those who are against my soul; for I am your servant.
  • Isa 54:17 : 17 No instrument of war which is formed against you will be of any use; and every tongue which says evil against you will be judged false. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.
  • Dan 3:26 : 26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near the door of the burning and flaming fire: he made answer and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, you servants of the Most High God, come out and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego came out of the fire.
  • Dan 6:20 : 20 Then very early in the morning the king got up and went quickly to the lions' hole.
  • Matt 13:40 : 40 As then the evil plants are got together and burned with fire, so will it be in the end of the world.
  • Matt 13:43 : 43 Then will the upright be shining as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him give ear.
  • Matt 19:29 : 29 And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.
  • Matt 25:46 : 46 And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the upright into eternal life.
  • John 4:36 : 36 He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.

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  • Rom 6:10-21
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    10 For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God.

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

    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.

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

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

    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;

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

    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.

  • 23 For 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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    6 Being 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.

    7 Because he who is dead is free from sin.

  • Rom 8:1-2
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    1 For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.

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

  • Rom 7:4-6
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    4 In 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.

    5 For 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.

    6 But 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.

  • John 8:34-36
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    34 And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin.

    35 Now the servant does not go on living in the house for ever, but the son does.

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

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

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

  • 8 Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.

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

    13 For 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.

  • 11 And 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.

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

  • Rom 6:1-2
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    1 What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace?

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

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    22 For 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.

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

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

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

  • 6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:

  • 13 Because 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.

  • 7 So that, having been given righteousness through grace, we might have a part in the heritage, the hope of eternal life.

  • 2 So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.

  • 11 Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

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

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

  • 21 That all living things will be made free from the power of death and will have a part with the free children of God in glory.

  • 22 In the body of his flesh through death, so that you might be holy and without sin and free from all evil before him:

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

  • 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.

  • 9 (Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),

  • 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

  • 19 For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.