Romans 6:19-20

6:19 (I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) ¹  For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. 6:20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.

Romans 6:22

6:22 But now, freed ²  from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit ³  leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

Isaiah 26:13

26:13 O Lord, our God,

masters other than you have ruled us,

but we praise your name alone.

Isaiah 54:17

54:17 No weapon forged to be used against you will succeed;

you will refute everyone who tries to accuse you. ⁴ 

This is what the Lord will do for his servants –

I will vindicate them,” ⁵ 

says the Lord.

¹ tn Or “because of your natural limitations” (NRSV).

² tn The two aorist participles translated “freed” and “enslaved” are causal in force; their full force is something like “But now, since you have become freed from sin and since you have become enslaved to God….”

³ tn Grk “fruit.”

⁴ tn Heb “and every tongue that rises up for judgment with you will prove to be guilty.”

⁵ tn Heb “this is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication from me.”