Romans 6:16

World English Bible (2000)

Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

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  • John 8:34 : 34 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.
  • Rom 6:12-13 : 12 Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
  • Josh 24:15 : 15 If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh."
  • 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 devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
  • Rom 6:17 : 17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.
  • Rom 6:19-23 : 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification. 20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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  • Rom 6:17-23
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    17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.

    18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

    19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

    20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

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

    22 But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

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

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

    11 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

    12 Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

    13 Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

    14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

    15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

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

    6 not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

    7 with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;

    8 knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

  • 1 Cor 7:22-23
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    22 For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord's free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ's bondservant.

    23 You were bought with a price. Don't become bondservants of men.

  • John 8:34
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    34 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

  • 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 done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

    7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.

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

    8 However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

    9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

  • Rom 7:5-6
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    5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

    6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

  • Col 3:22-24
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    22 Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

    23 And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

    24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

  • 2 Pet 2:19
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    19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

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

    2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

    3 Or don't you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

  • 1 Pet 2:16
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    16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

  • 2 Cor 10:6
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    6 and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience will be made full.

  • 1 Tim 6:1-2
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    1 Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

    2 Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

  • 1 Cor 6:19-20
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    19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

    20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

  • Rom 7:1
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    1 Or don't you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

  • Titus 2:9
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    9 Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;

  • Rom 8:12-13
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    12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

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

  • Rom 7:14
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    14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

  • 1 Cor 6:15
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    15 Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

  • Col 4:1
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    1 Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

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

  • Rom 14:8
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    8 For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.

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