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Romans 6:16

World English Bible

Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

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Romans 6:16 in other translations

Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Romans 6:16 · American Standard Version

Romans 6:16 in context

  1. 14For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
  2. 15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
  3. 16Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
  4. 17But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
  5. 18Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.