Romans 6:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

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  • Rom 6:22 : 22 But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.
  • John 8:32 : 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
  • Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
  • Gal 5:1 : 1 Freedom of the Believer For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.
  • 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God’s slaves.
  • Rom 6:7 : 7 (For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)
  • Rom 6:14 : 14 For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.
  • Rom 6:19-20 : 19 (I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.
  • John 8:36 : 36 So if the son sets you free, you will be really free.
  • Ps 116:16 : 16 Yes, LORD! I am indeed your servant; I am your servant, the son of your female servant. You saved me from death.
  • Ps 119:32 : 32 I run along the path of your commands, for you enable me to do so.
  • Ps 119:45 : 45 I will be secure, for I seek your precepts.
  • Isa 26:13 : 13 O LORD, our God, masters other than you have ruled us, but we praise your name alone.
  • Isa 54:17 : 17 No weapon forged to be used against you will succeed; you will refute everyone who tries to accuse you. This is what the LORD will do for his servants– I will vindicate them,” says the LORD.
  • Luke 1:74-75 : 74 that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, may serve him without fear, 75 in holiness and righteousness before him for as long as we live.
  • 1 Cor 7:21-22 : 21 Were you called as a slave? Do not worry about it. But if indeed you are able to be free, make the most of the opportunity. 22 For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. In the same way, the one who was called as a free person is Christ’s slave.

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  • Rom 6:19-23
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    19(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

    20For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.

    21So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

    22But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

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

  • Rom 6:10-17
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    10For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

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

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

    13and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.

    14For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

    15The Believer’s Enslavement to God’s Righteousness What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

    16Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?

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

  • Rom 6:6-7
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    6We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

    7(For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)

  • Rom 7:4-6
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    4So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.

    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

    6But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

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

  • John 8:36
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    36So if the son sets you free, you will be really free.

  • 1 Pet 2:16
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    16Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God’s slaves.

  • 1 Cor 7:21-23
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    21Were you called as a slave? Do not worry about it. But if indeed you are able to be free, make the most of the opportunity.

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

    23You were bought with a price. Do not become slaves of men.

  • Gal 5:1
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    1Freedom of the Believer For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.

  • Gal 4:7-8
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    7So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are a son, then you are also an heir through God.

    8Heirs of Promise Are Not to Return to Law Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.

  • John 8:34
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    34Jesus answered them,“I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.

  • 2 Pet 2:19
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    19Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

  • Rom 3:24
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    24But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

  • 1 Cor 1:30
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    30He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

  • 2 Cor 5:21
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    21God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.

  • Gal 5:13
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    13Practice Love For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another.

  • Rom 5:18-19
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    18Consequently, just as condemnation for all people came through one transgression, so too through the one righteous act came righteousness leading to life for all people.

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

  • Eph 6:5
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    5Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ,

  • Eph 6:7
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    7Obey with enthusiasm, as though serving the Lord and not people,

  • 1 Cor 9:19
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    19For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.

  • Gal 2:17
    69%

    17But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not!

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

  • John 8:32
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    32and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

  • Rom 8:21
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    21that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

  • Rom 6:1
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    1The Believer’s Freedom from Sin’s Domination What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase?

  • Gal 4:31
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    31Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman.

  • Gal 5:4
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    4You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

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

  • Eph 2:1
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    1New Life Individually And although you were dead in your offenses and sins,

  • 1 Cor 6:20
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    20For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

  • Phil 1:11
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    11filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.