Romans 6:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 6:16-17
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? …
John 8:34
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-23)

The apostle’s transition, which joins this discourse with the former, is observable: “ What shall we say then? Rom. 6:1. What use shall we make of this sweet and comfortable doctrine? Shall we do evil that good may come, as some say we do? Rom. 3:8. Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Shall we hence take encouragement to sin with so much the more boldness, because the more sin we commi…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. For when ye were the servants--“were servants” of Sin, ye were free from--rather, “in respect of” Righteousness--Difficulties have been made about this clause where none exist. The import of it seems clearly to be this:--“Since no servant can serve two masters, much less where their interests come into deadly collision, and each demands the whole man, so, while ye were in the service of Sin ye…