Romans 6:18
Good News Translation
You were set free from sin and became the slaves of righteousness.

New Revised Standard Version
and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.

Contemporary English Version
Now you are set free from sin and are slaves who please God.

New American Bible
Freed from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice.

made.

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

Psalm 116:16 O Lord, for I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds:

Psalm 119:32,45 I have run the way of thy commandments, when thou didst enlarge my heart. . . .

Luke 1:74,75 That being delivered from the hand of our enemies, we may serve him without fear: . . .

John 8:32,36 And you shall know the truth: and the truth shall make you free. . . .

1 Corinthians 7:21,22 Wast thou called, being a bondman? Care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. . . .

Galatians 5:1 Stand fast and be not held again under the yoke of bondage.

1 Peter 2:16 As free and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.

servants.

Romans 6:19,20,22 I 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. . . .

Isaiah 26:13 O Lord our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us, only in thee let us remember thy name.

Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper: and every tongue that resisteth thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their justice with me, saith the Lord.

Context
The Wages of Sin
17But thanks be to God, that you were the servants of sin but have obeyed from the heart unto that form of doctrine into which you have been delivered. 18Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice. 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.…
Cross References
Luke 4:18
The spirit of the Lord is upon me. Wherefore he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the contrite of heart,

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

Romans 6:22
But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting.

Romans 8:2
For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered me from the law of sin and of death.

Romans 6:17
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