◄ Romans 6:20 ►
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Good News Translation
When you were the slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.

New Revised Standard Version
When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

Contemporary English Version
When you were slaves of sin, you didn't have to please God.

New American Bible
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice.

the servants.

Romans 6:16,17 Know you not that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death or of obedience unto justice. . . .

John 8:34 Jesus answered them: Amen, amen, I say unto you that whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

from.

Context
The Wages of Sin
…19I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity: so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification. 20For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice. 21What fruit therefore had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.…
Cross References
Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

Romans 6:16
Know you not that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death or of obedience unto justice.

Romans 6:19
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