18You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.


In Context

15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

16 Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey--whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?

17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted.

18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

19 I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever- increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.

Romans 6:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:18Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:18Being then made free from sin, you became the servants of righteousness.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:18Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:18and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:18Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become bondmen to righteousness.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:18and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:18Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:18Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:18and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.