6:21 So what benefit 1 did you then reap 2 from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death. 6:22 But now, freed 3 from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit 4 leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.
1 tn Grk “fruit.”
2 tn Grk “have,” in a tense emphasizing their customary condition in the past.
3 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….”
4 tn Grk “fruit.”