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

◄ Romans 6:18 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

English Standard Version
and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.

New American Standard Bible
and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

King James Bible
Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
and having been liberated from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

International Standard Version
And since you have been freed from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness.

American Standard Version
and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.

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

Darby Bible Translation
Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become bondmen to righteousness.

Young's Literal Translation
and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

6:16-20 Every man is the servant of the master to whose commands he yields himself; whether it be the sinful dispositions of his heart, in actions which lead to death, or the new and spiritual obedience implanted by regeneration. The apostle rejoiced now they obeyed from the heart the gospel, into which they were delivered as into a mould. As the same metal becomes a new vessel, when melted and recast in another mould, so the believer has become a new creature. And there is great difference in the liberty of mind and spirit, so opposite to the state of slavery, which the true Christian has in the service of his rightful Lord, whom he is enabled to consider as his Father, and himself as his son and heir, by the adoption of grace. The dominion of sin consists in being willingly slaves thereto, not in being harassed by it as a hated power, struggling for victory. Those who now are the servants of God, once were the slaves of sin.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

18. Being then—"And being"; it is the continuation and conclusion of the preceding sentence; not a new one.

made free from Sin, ye became the servants of—"servants to"

Righteousness—The case is one of emancipation from entire servitude to one Master to entire servitude to another, whose property we are (see on [2206]Ro 1:1). There is no middle state of personal independence; for which we were never made, and to which we have no claim. When we would not that God should reign over us, we were in righteous judgment "sold under Sin"; now being through grace "made free from Sin," it is only to become "servants to Righteousness," which is our true freedom.