Romans 6:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

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  • John 8:34 : 34 Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you -- Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,
  • Rom 6:12-13 : 12 Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires; 13 neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;
  • Josh 24:15 : 15 and if wrong in your eyes to serve Jehovah -- choose for you to-day whom ye do serve; -- whether the gods whom your fathers served, which `are' beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorite in whose land ye are dwelling; and I and my house -- we serve Jehovah.'
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 `None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 liberty to them promising, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one hath been overcome, to this one also he hath been brought to servitude,
  • Rom 6:17 : 17 and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and -- were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up;
  • Rom 6:19-23 : 19 In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness -- to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness -- to sanctification, 20 for when ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness, 21 what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those `is' death. 22 And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit -- to sanctification, and the end life age-during; 23 for the wages of the sin `is' death, and the gift of God `is' life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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  • Rom 6:17-23
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    17and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and -- were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up;

    18and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.

    19In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness -- to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness -- to sanctification,

    20for when ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness,

    21what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those `is' death.

    22And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit -- to sanctification, and the end life age-during;

    23for the wages of the sin `is' death, and the gift of God `is' life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • Rom 6:10-15
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    10for in that he died, to the sin he died once, and in that he liveth, he liveth to God;

    11so also ye, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, and living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.

    12Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;

    13neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;

    14for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace.

    15What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!

  • Eph 6:5-8
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    77%

    5The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;

    6not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,

    7with good-will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men,

    8having known that whatever good thing each one may do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether servant or freeman.

  • 1 Cor 7:22-23
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    22for he who `is' in the Lord -- having been called a servant -- is the Lord's freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant of Christ:

    23with a price ye were bought, become not servants of men;

  • John 8:34
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    34Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you -- Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,

  • Rom 6:6-7
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    6this knowing, that our old man was crucified with `him', that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;

    7for he who hath died hath been set free from the sin.

  • Gal 4:7-9
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    7so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.

    8But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,

    9and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?

  • Rom 7:5-6
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    5for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that `are' through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;

    6and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

  • Col 3:22-24
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    22The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

    23and all, whatever ye may do -- out of soul work -- as to the Lord, and not to men,

    24having known that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance -- for the Lord Christ ye serve;

  • 2 Pet 2:19
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    19liberty to them promising, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one hath been overcome, to this one also he hath been brought to servitude,

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

    2let it not be! we who died to the sin -- how shall we still live in it?

    3are ye ignorant that we, as many as were baptized to Christ Jesus, to his death were baptized?

  • 1 Pet 2:16
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    16as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;

  • 2 Cor 10:6
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    6and being in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience may be fulfilled.

  • 1 Tim 6:1-2
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    72%

    1As many as are servants under a yoke, their own masters worthy of all honour let them reckon, that the name of God and the teaching may not be evil spoken of;

    2and those having believing masters, let them not slight `them', because they are brethren, but rather let them serve, because they are stedfast and beloved, who of the benefit are partaking. These things be teaching and exhorting;

  • 1 Cor 6:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

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

  • Rom 7:1
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    1Are ye ignorant, brethren -- for to those knowing law I speak -- that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth?

  • Titus 2:9
    71%

    9Servants -- to their own masters `are' to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

  • Rom 8:12-13
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    12So, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;

    13for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;

  • Rom 7:14
    71%

    14for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;

  • 1 Cor 6:15
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    15Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make `them' members of an harlot? let it be not!

  • Col 4:1
    70%

    1The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens.

  • Rom 8:2
    70%

    2for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;

  • Rom 14:8
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    8for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's;

  • Rom 5:21
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    21that even as the sin did reign in the death, so also the grace may reign, through righteousness, to life age-during, through Jesus Christ our Lord.