Romans 6:18

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Rom 6:22 : 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.
  • John 8:32 : 32 You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
  • Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
  • Gal 5:1 : 1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
  • 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
  • Rom 6:7 : 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.
  • Rom 6:14 : 14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
  • Rom 6:19-20 : 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.
  • John 8:36 : 36 If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
  • Ps 116:16 : 16 Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.
  • Ps 119:32 : 32 I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. HEY
  • Ps 119:45 : 45 I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.
  • Isa 26:13 : 13 Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us, but by you only will we make mention of your name.
  • Isa 54:17 : 17 No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me," says Yahweh.
  • Luke 1:74-75 : 74 to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear, 75 In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
  • 1 Cor 7:21-22 : 21 Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it. 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.

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  • Rom 6:19-23
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    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 6:10-17
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    83%

    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!

    16 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?

    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 6:6-7
    2 verses
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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.

  • Rom 7:4-6
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    4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

    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.

  • 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.

  • John 8:36
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    36 If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

  • 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.

  • 1 Cor 7:21-23
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    21 Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

    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.

  • Gal 5:1
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    1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

  • Gal 4:7-8
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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 1 Cor 1:30
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    30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

  • 2 Cor 5:21
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    21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

  • Gal 5:13
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    13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

  • Rom 5:18-19
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    18 So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

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

  • Eph 6:5
    70%

    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;

  • Eph 6:7
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    7 with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;

  • 1 Cor 9:19
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    19 For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

  • Gal 2:17
    69%

    17 But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

  • Gal 5:18
    69%

    18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

  • John 8:32
    69%

    32 You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

  • Rom 8:21
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    21 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

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

  • Gal 4:31
    69%

    31 So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman.

  • Gal 5:4
    68%

    4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

  • Rom 5:21
    68%

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

  • Eph 2:1
    68%

    1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

  • 1 Cor 6:20
    68%

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

  • Phil 1:11
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    11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.