New American Standard Bible 2020

Romans 6:18-23

18and after being 1freed from sin, you became slaves to righteousness. 19 2I am speaking 3in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just 4as you presented 5the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, 6resulting in further lawlessness, so now present 7your body’s parts as slaves to righteousness, 8resulting in sanctification.

20For 9when you were slaves of sin, you were free in relation to righteousness. 21Therefore what 10 11benefit were you then 12deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is 13death. 22But now having been 14freed from sin and 15enslaved to God, you 16derive your 17 18benefit, 19resulting in sanctification, and 20the outcome, eternal life. 23For the wages of 21sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is 22eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Notes

1. Romans 6:18 John 8:32; Rom 6:22; 8:2 ↩
2. Romans 6:19 Rom 3:5 ↩
3. Romans 6:19 I.e., reluctantly using slavery as an analogy ↩
4. Romans 6:19 Rom 6:13 ↩
5. Romans 6:19 Lit your parts as ↩
6. Romans 6:19 Lit to lawlessness ↩
7. Romans 6:19 Lit your parts as ↩
8. Romans 6:19 Lit to sanctification ↩
9. Romans 6:20 Matt 6:24; Rom 6:16 ↩
10. Romans 6:21 Lit fruit ↩
11. Romans 6:21 Jer 12:13; Ezek 16:63; Rom 7:5 ↩
12. Romans 6:21 Lit having ↩
13. Romans 6:21 Rom 1:32; 5:12; 6:16, 23; 8:6, 13; Gal 6:8 ↩
14. Romans 6:22 John 8:32; Rom 6:18; 8:2 ↩
15. Romans 6:22 1 Cor 7:22; 1 Pet 2:16 ↩
16. Romans 6:22 Lit have ↩
17. Romans 6:22 Lit fruit ↩
18. Romans 6:22 Rom 7:4 ↩
19. Romans 6:22 Lit to sanctification ↩
20. Romans 6:22 1 Pet 1:9 ↩
21. Romans 6:23 Rom 1:32; 5:12; 6:16, 21; 8:6, 13; Gal 6:8 ↩
22. Romans 6:23 Matt 25:46; Rom 5:21; 8:38, 39 ↩

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