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Romans 6:20

World English Bible

For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.

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Romans 6:20 in other translations

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

Romans 6:20 · American Standard Version

Romans 6:20 in context

  1. 18Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
  2. 19I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
  3. 20For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
  4. 21What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
  5. 22But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.