Bondmen Bondservants Control Free Regard Righteousness Servants Sin Slaves Sort Subjection
6:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were {t} free from righteousness.
(t) Righteousness had no rule over you.
6:20 Ye were free from righteousness. While servants of sin they did not serve righteousness at all.
6:20 When ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness - In all reason, therefore, ye ought now to be free from unrighteousness; to be as uniform and zealous in serving God as ye were in serving the devil.
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.
Bondmen Bondservants Control Free Regard Righteousness Servants Sin Slaves Sort Subjection
Bondmen Bondservants Control Free Regard Righteousness Servants Sin Slaves Sort Subjection
