Romans 6:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Rom 6:16-17 : 16 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? 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.
  • John 8:34 : 34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.

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

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

    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.

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

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

    16 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?

    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.

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

    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.

  • Rom 6:21-23
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    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.

  • Rom 6:6-7
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    6 Knowing 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.

    7 For he who has died is freed from sin.

  • Rom 7:4-6
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    4 Therefore, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ; that you may be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

    5 For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit to 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.

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

  • Gal 5:1
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    1 Stand firm therefore in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and do not become entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

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

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

    9 But 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 8:2
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    2 For 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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    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.

  • 1 Cor 7:21-23
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    21 Were you called while a servant? Do not be concerned about it; but if you can be made free, rather use it.

    22 For 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.

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

  • John 8:36
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    36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.

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

  • Gal 5:13
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    13 For, brethren, you have been called to freedom; only do not use freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11 And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

  • Gal 2:17
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    17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? God forbid.

  • Rom 3:24
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    24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

  • Gal 5:4
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    4 Christ has become of no effect to you, whoever among you are justified by the law; you have 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 Certainly not. How shall we who are dead to sin live any longer in it?

  • Rom 3:20
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    20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

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

  • Eph 2:1
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    1 And you He has made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

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

  • Col 3:7
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    7 In which you also walked at one time, when you lived in them.

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

  • Rom 3:9
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    9 What then? Are we better than they? Not at all: for we have already charged both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

  • Gal 4:3
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    3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the basic principles of the world:

  • Eph 6:7
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    7 With goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;

  • Rom 7:9
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    9 For I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

  • Rom 5:19
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    19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one many will be made righteous.

  • Gal 4:31
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    31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.

  • 1 Cor 1:30
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    30 But of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption—