Discovery BoxRomans 6:14-20
Context6:14 For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.
6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not! 6:16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves 1 as obedient slaves, 2 you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness? 3 6:17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed 4 from the heart that pattern 5 of teaching you were entrusted to, 6:18 and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness. 6:19 (I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) 6 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.
[6:16] 1 tn Grk “to whom you present yourselves.”
[6:16] 2 tn Grk “as slaves for obedience.” See the note on the word “slave” in 1:1.
[6:16] 3 tn Grk “either of sin unto death, or obedience unto righteousness.”
[6:17] 1 tn Grk “you were slaves of sin but you obeyed.”
[6:19] 1 tn Or “because of your natural limitations” (NRSV).
