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


In Context

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.

21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!

22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.

Romans 6:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:20For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:20For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:20For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:20For when ye were bondmen of sin ye were free from righteousness.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:20For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:20For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:20For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:20for when ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:20For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.