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Lexham English Bible

Romans 6:18

and having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Holiness;   Regeneration;   Righteous;   Servant;   Thompson Chain Reference - Liberty;   Liberty-Bondage;   Spiritual;   The Topic Concordance - Righteousness;   Servants;   Sin;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Bondage, Spiritual;   Conduct, Christian;   Doctrines of the Gospel, the;   Liberty, Christian;   Redemption;   Righteousness;   Sin;   Titles and Names of Saints;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Flesh;   Freedom;   Obedience;   Paul;   Redemption;   Righteousness;   Self-discipline;   Servant;   Sin;   Slave;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Body;   Freedom;   Philippians, Theology of;   Servant, Service;   Spirituality;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Son of God;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Antinomianism;   Flesh;   Freedom;   Human Free Will;   Romans, Book of;   Slave/servant;   Thanksgiving;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Liberty;   Redeemer, Redemption;   Repentance;   Romans, Epistle to the;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Bondage;   Debt, Debtor;   Freedom of the Will;   Grace ;   Holiness Purity;   Liberty (2);   Regeneration;   Righteousness;   Sin;   Sin (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Liberty;  

Devotionals:

- Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life - Devotion for December 22;   Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for December 28;   My Utmost for His Highest - Devotion for October 9;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.
King James Version (1611)
Being then made free from sinne, yee became the seruants of righteousnesse.
King James Version
Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
English Standard Version
and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
New American Standard Bible
and after being freed from sin, you became slaves to righteousness.
New Century Version
You were made free from sin, and now you are slaves to goodness.
Amplified Bible
And having been set free from sin, you have become the slaves of righteousness [of conformity to God's will and purpose].
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
Legacy Standard Bible
and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
Berean Standard Bible
You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
Contemporary English Version
Now you are set free from sin and are slaves who please God.
Complete Jewish Bible
and after you had been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.
Darby Translation
Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become bondmen to righteousness.
Easy-to-Read Version
You were made free from sin, and now you are slaves to what is right.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Being then made free from sinne, yee are made the seruants of righteousnesse.
George Lamsa Translation
Now, being made free from sin, you become the servants of righteousness.
Good News Translation
You were set free from sin and became the slaves of righteousness.
Literal Translation
And having been set free from sin, you were enslaved to righteousness.
American Standard Version
and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.
Bible in Basic English
And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.
Hebrew Names Version
Being made free from sin, you became servants of righteousness.
International Standard Version
And since you have been freed from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness.John 8:32; 1 Corinthians 7:22; Galatians 5:1; 1 Peter 2:16;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And when you were made free from sin, you became obedient to righteousness.
Murdock Translation
And when ye were emancipated from sin, ye became servants to righteousness.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Being then made free fro sinne, ye are become ye seruauntes of ryghteousnesse.
English Revised Version
and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.
World English Bible
Being made free from sin, you became servants of righteousness.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Being then set free from sin, ye are become the servants of righteousness.
Weymouth's New Testament
You were set free from the tyranny of Sin, and became the bondservants of Righteousness--
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And ye delyuered fro synne, ben maad seruauntis of riytwisnesse.
Update Bible Version
and being made free from sin, you were made a slave to righteousness.
Webster's Bible Translation
Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
New English Translation
and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.
New King James Version
And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
New Living Translation
Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living.
New Life Bible
You were made free from the power of sin. Being right with God has power over you now.
New Revised Standard
and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, being freed from sin, ye were made servants unto righteousness; -
Douay-Rheims Bible
Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice.
Revised Standard Version
and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Ye are then made fre from synne and are be come the servauntes of rightewesnes.
Young's Literal Translation
and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For now that ye are made fre from synue, ye are become the seruauntes of righteousnes.
Mace New Testament (1729)
being then set free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Ya don't work for sin no more. Now you're one of the Lord's hands.

Contextual Overview

1 What therefore shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, in order that grace may increase? 2 May it never be! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may live a new way of life. 5 For if we have become identified with him in the likeness of his death, certainly also we will be identified with him in the likeness of his resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified together with him, in order that the body of sin may be done away with, that we may no longer be enslaved to sin. 7 For the one who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, 9 knowing that Christ, because he has been raised from the dead, is going to die no more, death no longer being master over him. 10 For that death he died, he died to sin once and never again, but that life he lives, he lives to God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

made: Romans 6:14, Psalms 116:16, Psalms 119:32, Psalms 119:45, Luke 1:74, Luke 1:75, John 8:32, John 8:36, 1 Corinthians 7:21, 1 Corinthians 7:22, Galatians 5:1, 1 Peter 2:16

servants: Romans 6:19, Romans 6:20, Romans 6:22, Isaiah 26:13, Isaiah 54:17

Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:10 - proclaim Leviticus 25:55 - my servants Deuteronomy 6:21 - General Deuteronomy 16:12 - General Deuteronomy 27:9 - this day Romans 8:2 - hath 1 Corinthians 9:27 - and Galatians 4:26 - free Galatians 5:13 - ye 1 Thessalonians 2:13 - effectually

Cross-References

Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, without defect in his generations. Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:16
You must make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above. And as for the door of the ark, you must put it in its side. You must make it with a lower, second, and a third deck.
Genesis 7:1
Then Yahweh said to Noah, "Go—you and all your household—into the ark, for I have seen you are righteous before me in this generation.
Genesis 7:7
And Noah and his sons and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.
Genesis 7:13
On this same day, Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark,
Genesis 17:4
"As for me, behold, my covenant shall be with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.
Genesis 17:7
And I will establish my covenant between me and you, and between your offspring after you, throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant to be as God for you and to your offspring after you.
Genesis 17:21
But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this appointed time next year."
Isaiah 26:20
Go, my people, enter into your chambers and shut your doors behind you; hide for a very little while, until the wrath has passed over.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, having been warned about things not yet seen, out of reverence constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family, by which he pronounced sentence on the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Being then made free from sin,.... Not from a sinful nature; nor from a corrupt heart; nor from vain thoughts; nor from sinful words; nor from sinful actions altogether; but from the damning power of sin: sin brought all men under a sentence of condemnation; Christ has bore the execution of this sentence in himself for his people; hence, as considered in him, they are free from it; and such as are born again have passed from death to life, and shall never enter into condemnation: likewise, such persons are free from the guilt of sin; men are in a legal sense arraigned for sin, accused of it, and being convicted, are pronounced guilty before God; and awakened souls have a sense of it in themselves; but the blood of Christ sprinkled on their consciences frees them from it; though fresh sins committed bring fresh guilt, which requires the continual application of the blood of Jesus for pardon and cleansing: but what is chiefly designed here is freedom from the servitude of sin, as appears from the context. Now God's elect are not released voluntarily by their former masters; nor is their freedom obtained by their own power and will; but it is of God, Father, Son, and Spirit; and the Gospel is generally the means of it, and happy are those persons who are blessed with it! They are rid of a bad master; are freed from the worst of bondage; will be no more servants, as before; are delivered from the power, and out of the kingdom of darkness; are heirs of heaven, and shall enjoy the glorious liberty of the children of God: and for the time present are

become the servants of righteousness; servants to God, whose Gospel they obey; servants to Christ, whose righteousness they submit to; and servants to the law of righteousness, as held forth by Christ; they give up themselves to a course and life of righteousness, in which there are true honour, peace, and pleasure.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

“Being then made free from sin.” That is, as a master. You are not under its dominion; you are no longer its slaves. They were made free, as a servant is who is set at liberty, and who is, therefore, no longer under obligation to obey.

Ye became the servants ... - You became voluntarily under the dominion of righteousness; you yielded yourselves to it; and are therefore bound to be holy; compare the note at John 8:32.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 6:18. Being then made free from sin — ελευθερωθεντες is a term that refers to the manumission of a slave. They were redeemed from the slavery of sin, and became the servants of righteousness. Here is another prosopopoeia: both sin and righteousness are personified: sin can enjoin no good and profitable work; righteousness can require none that is unjust or injurious.


 
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