Servants of Sin and Free from Righteousness Romans 6:20

Paul the apostle asked the people in Rome, “as you have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness”, and in chapter six and twenty of Romans, Paul referred to when the Romans were, “the servant of sin” and “free from righteousness” where we read:

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

The verse begins, “For when you were the servants of sin, ...” Paul began with the words, “for” which means “even as, indeed, no doubt, seeing then, verily and therefore” “when you were” which means “when Paul's readers used to be and existed as” “the servants” or “the slaves, bondmen or men of servile condition” “of sin” which refers to “missing the mark, erring and being mistaken”. Paul referred to the time when his readers were “slaves and bondmen” to “missing the mark and erring”.

The verse goes on to say, “... you were free from righteousness.” Paul began with the words “you were free” or “Paul's readers were set at liberty, manumitted, unrestrained and not bound by an obligation” “from righteousness” which means “state of him who is as he ought to be and the condition acceptable to God”. Paul shared how his readers in their “sinful” state were “not bound by the obligation” of “righteousness”.

When we consider these words of Paul, we see how people who are “servants of sin” do not concern themselves with “righteous” living. Their lives are consumed with “sinful” actions and attitudes, and they reject living “right” according to “the condition acceptable to God”. Jesus Christ came into the world to “remove” “sin” from people who were it's servants, and when they receive Him as “Savior and Lord”, living “righteously” becomes their great desire. May all who read these words leave the “bondage” of “sin” and receive “righteous” Jesus into their lives.

Next time Paul asks the people in Rome when they were, “what fruit” they “had then in those things where of you are now ashamed?”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

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