22But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
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As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
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 com…
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