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Don`t you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
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 ([…
His servants ye are whom ye obey (δουλο εστε ω υπακουετε). Bondservants, slaves of the one whom ye obey, whatever one's profession…
19th Century
Anglican
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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Baptist
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…
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 …
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves The apostle goes on with his answer to the above objection, by makin…
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…
13th Century
Catholic
After showing that we should not remain in sin and that we have the capacity for this, the Apostle concludes with a moral exhortation.
