34Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
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Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. …
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 31-37)We have in these verses, I. A comfortable doctrine laid down concerning the spiritual liberty of Christ’s disciples, intended for the encouragement of those Jews that believed . Christ, knowing that his doctrine began to work upon some of his hearers, and perceiving that virtue had gone out of him, turned his discourse from the proud Pharisees, and addressed himself to those weak believers. When h…
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