Romans 6:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as servants to obey, you are the servants of the one whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?

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  • John 8:34 : 34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.
  • Rom 6:12-13 : 12 Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey its lusts. 13 And do not yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
  • Josh 24:15 : 15 And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.
  • Rom 6:17 : 17 But God be thanked that though you were servants of sin, you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.
  • Rom 6:19-23 : 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as servants of uncleanness and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as servants of righteousness for holiness. 20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now, having been freed from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit to 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.

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

    18And having been set free from sin, you became servants of righteousness.

    19I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as servants of uncleanness and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as servants of righteousness for holiness.

    20For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.

    21What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

    22But now, having been freed from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.

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

  • Rom 6:10-15
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    10For the death that He died, He died to sin once; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

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

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

    13And do not yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

    14For sin shall not have dominion over you, for 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.

  • Eph 6:5-8
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    5Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of your heart, as to Christ;

    6Not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

    7With goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;

    8Knowing that whatever good thing anyone does, the same shall they receive from the Lord, whether they are bond or free.

  • 1 Cor 7:22-23
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    22For he who is called in the Lord while a servant is the Lord's freedman. Likewise, he who is called while free is Christ's servant.

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

  • John 8:34
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    34Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.

  • Rom 6:6-7
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    6Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

    7For he who has died is freed from sin.

  • Gal 4:7-9
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    7Therefore you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

    8However, then, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods.

    9But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and beggarly principles, to which you desire again to be in bondage?

  • Rom 7:5-6
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    5For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit to death.

    6But 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.

  • Col 3:22-24
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    22Servants, obey in all things your earthly masters, not with eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing God.

    23And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men.

    24Knowing that from the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance, for you serve the Lord Christ.

  • 2 Pet 2:19
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    19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.

  • Rom 6:1-3
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    1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

    2Certainly not. How shall we who are dead to sin live any longer in it?

    3Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?

  • 1 Pet 2:16
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    16As free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.

  • 2 Cor 10:6
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    6And being ready to punish all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

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    1Let as many servants as are under the yoke consider their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and His doctrine be not blasphemed.

    2And those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather serve them, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

  • 1 Cor 6:19-20
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    19What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God, and you are not your own?

    20For you are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

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    1Do you not know, brothers, (for I speak to those who know the law,) that the law has dominion over a person as long as he lives?

  • Titus 2:9
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    9Exhort servants to be obedient to their own masters, and to please them well in all things, not answering back;

  • Rom 8:12-13
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    12Therefore, brothers, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

    13For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

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    14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.

  • 1 Cor 6:15
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    15Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.

  • Col 4:1
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    1Masters, give to your servants that which is just and fair, knowing that you also 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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    8For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

  • Rom 5:21
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    21So that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.