Romans 6:20

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For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.

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  • Rom 6:16-17 : 16 Do you not know that if you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, though you were slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted.
  • John 8:34 : 34 Jesus replied, "Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.

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  • Rom 6:10-19
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    10For the death He died, He died to sin once for all time; but the life He lives, He lives to God.

    11So you too consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

    12Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.

    13Do not present the parts of your body as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and the parts of your body as instruments of righteousness to God.

    14For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the law but under grace.

    15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Certainly not!

    16Do you not know that if you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

    17But thanks be to God that, though you were slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted.

    18Having been set free from sin, you became slaves to righteousness.

    19I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you presented the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

  • Rom 6:21-23
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    21But what fruit did you produce then from the things you are now ashamed of? The outcome of those things is death.

    22But now, having been freed from sin and bound to God, you have your fruit, which leads to sanctification—and the outcome is eternal life.

    23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • Rom 6:6-7
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    6We know this: our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, and we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

    7For the one who has died has been freed from sin.

  • Rom 7:4-6
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    4Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—in order that we might bear fruit for God.

    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

    6But now we have been released from the law, having died to what once bound us, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

  • 1 Pet 2:16
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    16Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.

  • Gal 5:1
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    1For freedom, Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

  • Gal 4:7-9
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    7So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then also an heir through God.

    8But in the past, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those who by nature are not gods.

    9But now, having come to know God—or rather, having been known by God—how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles, whose slaves you want to be once more?

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

  • 2 Pet 2:19
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    19They promise freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption, for a person is a slave to whatever has mastered them.

  • 1 Cor 7:21-23
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    21Were you called while a slave? Do not let it trouble you. But if you can gain your freedom, do so.

    22For the one who was called as a slave in the Lord is the Lord’s freed person; in the same way, the one who was called while free is Christ’s slave.

    23You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.

  • John 8:36
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    36So if the Son sets you free, you will be truly free.

  • John 8:34
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    34Jesus replied, "Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.

  • Gal 5:13
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    13For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

  • Gal 2:17
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    17But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!

  • Rom 3:24
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    24And all are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

  • Gal 5:4
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    4You who are justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

  • Rom 6:1-2
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    1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?

    2Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

  • Rom 3:20
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    20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

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

  • Eph 2:1
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    1And you were dead in your transgressions and sins.

  • Eph 6:5
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    5Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with sincerity of heart, as you would Christ.

  • Col 3:7
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    7You also once walked in these ways, when you were living in them.

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

  • Rom 3:9
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    9What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already charged that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin.

  • Gal 4:3
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    3In the same way, we too, when we were children, were enslaved under the elemental principles of the world.

  • Eph 6:7
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    7Serve with enthusiasm, as to the Lord and not to people,

  • Rom 7:9
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    9At one time I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin came to life and I died.

  • Rom 5:19
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    19For just as through the disobedience of one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of one man the many will be made righteous.

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

  • 1 Cor 1:30
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    30It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.