Romans 6:15-23
1599 Geneva Bible
15 [a]What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the Law, but under grace? God forbid.
16 (A)Know ye not, that to whomsoever ye give yourselves as servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey, whether it be of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 [b]But God be thanked, that ye have been the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart unto the [c]form of the doctrine, whereunto ye were delivered.
18 Being then made free from sin, ye are made the servants of righteousness.
19 I speak after the manner of man, because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have given your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity, to commit iniquity, so now give your members servants unto righteousness in holiness.
20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were [d]freed from righteousness.
21 [e]What fruit had ye then in those things, whereof ye are now ashamed? For the [f]end of those things is death.
22 But now being freed from sin, and made servants unto God, ye have your fruit in holiness, and the end, everlasting life.
23 [g]For the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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- Romans 6:15 To be under the law and under sin, signifiy all one, in respect of them which are not sanctified, as on the contrary side, to be under grace and righteousness, agree to them that are regenerate. Now these are contraries, so that one cannot agree with the other: Therefore let righteousness expel sin.
- Romans 6:17 By nature we are slaves to sin, and free from righteousness, but by the grace of God we are made servants to righteousness, and therefore free from sin.
- Romans 6:17 This kind of speech hath a force in it: for he meaneth thereby that the doctrine of the Gospel is like a certain mold which we are cast into to be framed and fashioned like unto it.
- Romans 6:20 Righteousness had no rule over you.
- Romans 6:21 An exhortation to the study of righteousness and hatred of sin, the contrary ends of both, being set down before us.
- Romans 6:21 The reward or payment.
- Romans 6:23 Death is the punishment due to sin, but we are sanctified freely, unto life everlasting.
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