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Your Actions Reveal Your Master
Commentators unanimously agree that this verse establishes a universal principle: you are a servant to whomever or whatever you consistently obey. Your actions and lifestyle are the ultimate test of your allegiance. As Charles Spurgeon highlights, our outward conduct reveals our true master. A person cannot claim to serve God while willingly living a life of sin.
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Albert Barnes
On Romans 6:16
18th Century
Theologian
Do you not know, etc. The apostle answers the objection noticed in Romans 6:15 by a reference to the known laws of servitude or slavery ([…
AT Robertson
On Romans 6:16
His servants ye are whom ye obey (δουλο εστε ω υπακουετε). Bondservants, slaves of the one whom ye obey, whatever one's profession…
Charles Ellicott
On Romans 6:16
19th Century
Bishop
Know ye not.—An apparent tautology, but one which really teaches a deep ethical truth. Don’t you know that what you make …
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Charles Spurgeon
On Romans 6:16
19th Century
Preacher
Do you not know, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or of ob…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Romans 6:16
Paul has just affirmed, “You are not under law.” Now he shows that this does not mean that believers are free from the demands of living according …
John Calvin
On Romans 6:16
16th Century
Theologian
By no means: do you not know? This is not a mere denial, as some think, as if he preferred to express his abhorrence of such a question ra…
John Gill
On Romans 6:16
17th Century
Pastor
Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves
The apostle goes on with his answer to the above objection, by makin…
Matthew Henry
On Romans 6:16–20
17th Century
Minister
Every man is the servant of the master to whose commands he yields himself; whether it is the sinful dispositions of his heart, in actions which le…