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For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
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A Deceptive Freedom
Commentators explain that being "free from righteousness" was not a positive state. It described a complete separation from God's influence, where righteousness held no claim or concern. John Calvin calls this a "wretched and accursed liberty" that leads to destruction, while others note it shows a state of total depravity, where people "wore no collar of righteousness."
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Ye were free from righteousness. That is, in your former state, you were not at all under the influence of righteousness. You were entirel…
Free in regard of righteousness (ελευθερο τη δικαιοσυνη). Ye wore no collar of righteousness, but freely did as ye pleased. They w…
19th Century
Baptist
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as you have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to ini…
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Reviewing his own remarks, Paul grants that he has spoken “in human terms” (v.19). This is a kind of apology () for having described the Christian …
16th Century
Protestant
For when you were, etc. He still repeats the difference, which he had previously mentioned, between the yoke of righteousness and…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For when ye were the servants of sin This is an argument used, or a reason given, why regenerate persons should be d…
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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 with a reason based on God’s grace that we should not continue in sin but should serve God, the Apostle shows the same thin…
