Romans 6:20

Authorized King James Version (1611)

For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

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  • Rom 6:16-17 : 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
  • John 8:34 : 34 Jesus answered them, ‹Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.›

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  • Rom 6:10-19
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    10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

    11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

    12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

    13 Neither yield ye your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.

    14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

    15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

    16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

    17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

    18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

    19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

  • Rom 6:21-23
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    21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things [is] death.

    22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

    23 For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • Rom 6:6-7
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    6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

    7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.

  • Rom 7:4-6
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    4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

    5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

    6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.

  • 16 As free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

  • 1 ¶ Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

  • Gal 4:7-9
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    7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

    8 ¶ Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

    9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

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

  • 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

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    21 Art thou called [being] a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use [it] rather.

    22 For he that is called in the Lord, [being] a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, [being] free, is Christ's servant.

    23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

  • 36 ‹If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.›

  • 34 Jesus answered them, ‹Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.›

  • 13 ¶ For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

  • 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

  • 17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, [is] therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.

  • 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

  • 4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

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

    2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

  • 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin.

  • 18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

  • 1 ¶ And you [hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses and sins;

  • 5 Servants, be obedient to them that are [your] masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

  • 7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.

  • 21 For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

  • 9 What then? are we better [than they]? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

  • 3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

  • 7 With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:

  • 9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

  • 19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

  • 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

  • 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: