Romans 6:20

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • Rom 6:16-17 : 16 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? 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;
  • 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,

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  • Rom 6:10-19
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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!

    16have 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?

    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,

  • Rom 6:21-23
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    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 6:6-7
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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.

  • Rom 7:4-6
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    4So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

    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.

  • 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;

  • Gal 5:1
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    1In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

  • 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?

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    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;

  • 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,

  • 1 Cor 7:21-23
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    21a servant -- wast thou called? be not anxious; but if also thou art able to become free -- use `it' rather;

    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 8:36
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    36if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

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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,

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    13For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

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    11And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

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    17And if, seeking to be declared righteous in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, `is' then Christ a ministrant of sin? let it not be!

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    24being declared righteous freely by His grace through the redemption that `is' in Christ Jesus,

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    4ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;

  • Rom 6:1-2
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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?

  • Rom 3:20
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    20wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.

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    18and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law.

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    1Also you -- being dead in the trespasses and the sins,

  • Eph 6:5
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    5The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;

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    21for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

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    9What, then? are we better? not at all! for we did before charge both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin,

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    3so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,

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

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    9And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;

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    19for as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners: so also through the obedience of the one, shall the many be constituted righteous.

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    30and of Him ye -- ye are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption,