Romans 6:20
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 6:10-1910 verses90%
10 for in that he died, to the sin he died once, and in that he liveth, he liveth to God;
11 so also ye, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, and living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.
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;
14 for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!
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;
18 and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.
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,
- Rom 6:21-233 verses82%
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.
- Rom 6:6-72 verses77%
6 this 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;
7 for he who hath died hath been set free from the sin.
- Rom 7:4-63 verses76%
4 So 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;
5 for 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;
6 and 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.
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16 as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;
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1 In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;
- Gal 4:7-93 verses74%
7 so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.
8 But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,
9 and 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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2 for 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;
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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,
- 1 Cor 7:21-233 verses72%
21 a servant -- wast thou called? be not anxious; but if also thou art able to become free -- use `it' rather;
22 for 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:
23 with a price ye were bought, become not servants of men;
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36 if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.
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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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13 For 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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11 And 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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17 And 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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24 being declared righteous freely by His grace through the redemption that `is' in Christ Jesus,
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4 ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;
- Rom 6:1-22 verses69%
1 What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound?
2 let it not be! we who died to the sin -- how shall we still live in it?
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20 wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.
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18 and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law.
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1 Also you -- being dead in the trespasses and the sins,
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5 The 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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7 in which also ye -- ye did walk once, when ye lived in them;
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21 for 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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9 What, 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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3 so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,
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7 with good-will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men,
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9 And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;
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19 for 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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31 then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's.
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30 and of Him ye -- ye are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption,