Romans 6:20

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Rom 6:16-17 : 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.
  • John 8:34 : 34 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

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

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

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

    13Neither 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.

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

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

    16Don'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?

    17But 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.

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

    19I 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.

  • Rom 6:21-23
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    21What 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Rom 7:4-6
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    4Therefore, 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.

    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

    6But 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.

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

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

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

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

    9But 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 8:2
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    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

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

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

    22For 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.

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

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

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

  • Gal 5:13
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    13For 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.

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11Such 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.

  • Gal 2:17
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    17But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

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

  • Gal 5:4
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    4You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

  • Rom 6:1-2
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    1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

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

  • Rom 3:20
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    20Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

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

  • Eph 2:1
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    1You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

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

  • Col 3:7
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    7You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

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

  • Rom 3:9
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    9What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

  • Gal 4:3
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    3So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

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

  • Rom 7:9
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    9I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

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

  • Gal 4:31
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    31So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman.

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