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The Book of Romans, Chapter 6, Verse 18

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But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
King James Version
Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
American Standard Version
and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.
New English Translation
and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!
World English Bible
Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
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I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
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For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
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What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things [is] death.
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But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
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For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
2
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband.
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So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
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Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
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For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.