Romans 6:22
New International Version
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.

New Living Translation
But now you are free from the power of sin and have become slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to holiness and result in eternal life.

English Standard Version
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.

Berean Standard Bible
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.

Berean Literal Bible
But now, having been set free from sin, and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

King James Bible
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

New King James Version
But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.

New American Standard Bible
But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.

NASB 1995
But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.

NASB 1977
But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.

Legacy Standard Bible
But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit, leading to sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

Amplified Bible
But now since you have been set free from sin and have become [willing] slaves to God, you have your benefit, resulting in sanctification [being made holy and set apart for God’s purpose], and the outcome [of this] is eternal life.

Christian Standard Bible
But now, since you have been set free from sin and have become enslaved to God, you have your fruit, which results in sanctification —and the outcome is eternal life!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But now, since you have been liberated from sin and have become enslaved to God, you have your fruit, which results in sanctification—and the end is eternal life!

American Standard Version
But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And now because you have been freed from sin and you are Servants to God, your fruit is holy, for the result of those things is eternal life.

Contemporary English Version
Now you have been set free from sin, and you are God's slaves. This will make you holy and will lead you to eternal life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting.

English Revised Version
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Now you have been freed from sin and have become God's slaves. This results in a holy life and, finally, in everlasting life.

Good News Translation
But now you have been set free from sin and are the slaves of God. Your gain is a life fully dedicated to him, and the result is eternal life.

International Standard Version
But now that you have been freed from sin and have become God's slaves, the benefit you reap is sanctification, and the result is eternal life.

Literal Standard Version
And now, having been freed from sin, and having become servants to God, you have your fruit—to sanctification, and the end continuous life;

Majority Standard Bible
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.

New American Bible
But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit that you have leads to sanctification, and its end is eternal life.

NET Bible
But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

New Revised Standard Version
But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life.

New Heart English Bible
But now, being made free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of everlasting life.

Webster's Bible Translation
But now being made free from sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.

Weymouth New Testament
But now that you have been set free from the tyranny of Sin, and have become the bondservants of God, you have your reward in being made holy, and you have the Life of the Ages as the final result.

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

Young's Literal Translation
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;

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Audio Bible



Context
The Wages of Sin
21What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death. 22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life. 23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.…

Cross References
John 8:32
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

Romans 6:18
You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

Romans 7:4
Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

Romans 8:2
For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.

1 Corinthians 7:22
For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is the Lord's freedman. Conversely, he who was a free man when he was called is Christ's slave.

Hebrews 12:14
Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

1 Peter 1:9
now that you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.


Treasury of Scripture

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.

But now.

Romans 6:14,18
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace…

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

John 8:32
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

become.

Romans 7:25
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Genesis 50:17
So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.

Job 1:8
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

ye have.

Psalm 92:14
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;

John 15:2,16
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit…

Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

and the end.

Romans 6:21
What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

Numbers 23:10
Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

Psalm 37:37,38
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace…

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Romans 6
1. We may not live in sin;
2. for we are dead unto it;
3. as appears by our baptism.
12. Let not sin reign anymore;
18. because we have yielded ourselves to the service of righteousness;
23. and because death is the wages of sin.














(22) Ye have your fruit.--You are no longer without fruit. Your fruit is the new Christian life which leads on to sanctification and finally to eternal life.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
But
δέ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

now [that]
νυνὶ (nyni)
Adverb
Strong's 3570: A prolonged form of nun for emphasis; just now.

you have been set free
ἐλευθερωθέντες (eleutherōthentes)
Verb - Aorist Participle Passive - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 1659: To free, set free, liberate. From eleutheros; to liberate, i.e. to exempt.

from
ἀπὸ (apo)
Preposition
Strong's 575: From, away from. A primary particle; 'off, ' i.e. Away, in various senses.

sin
ἁμαρτίας (hamartias)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 266: From hamartano; a sin.

and
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

have become slaves
δουλωθέντες (doulōthentes)
Verb - Aorist Participle Passive - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 1402: To enslave. From doulos; to enslave.

to God,
Θεῷ (Theō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

the
τὸν (ton)
Article - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

fruit
καρπὸν (karpon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2590: Probably from the base of harpazo; fruit, literally or figuratively.

you reap
ἔχετε (echete)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 2192: To have, hold, possess. Including an alternate form scheo skheh'-o; a primary verb; to hold.

[leads to]
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

holiness,
ἁγιασμόν (hagiasmon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 38: From hagiazo; properly, purification, i.e. purity; concretely a purifier.

and
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

the
τὸ (to)
Article - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

outcome
τέλος (telos)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 5056: (a) an end, (b) event or issue, (c) the principal end, aim, purpose, (d) a tax.

[is] eternal
αἰώνιον (aiōnion)
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 166: From aion; perpetual.

life.
ζωὴν (zōēn)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2222: Life, both of physical (present) and of spiritual (particularly future) existence. From zao; life.


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