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Romans 6:18-20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Romans 6:18-20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
18 and that you, having been set free from sin, have become enslaved to righteousness.(A) 19 I am speaking in human terms because of your limitations.[a] For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness, leading to even more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification.(B)
20 When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.(C)
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- 6.19 Gk the weakness of your flesh
Romans 6:18-20
New International Version
Romans 6:18-20
New International Version
18 You have been set free from sin(A) and have become slaves to righteousness.(B)
19 I am using an example from everyday life(C) because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness(D) leading to holiness. 20 When you were slaves to sin,(E) you were free from the control of righteousness.(F)
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