Scripture · New Testament
Romans 6:20
Romans 6:20 is verse 20 of Romans chapter 6, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.
King James Version
For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
World English Bible
For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
Read in context
Romans 6:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible
18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
20 For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.
21 What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.
Read all of Romans 6Greek words
Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Study Romans 6:20
Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Romans 6:16Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?
Romans 6:17But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.
John 8:34Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.