SLAVES TO RIGHTEOUSNESS

Romans 6:15-23

15 What then?

Shall we Sin because we are not Under Law

But Under Grace?

BY NO MEANS!

16 Don't you know

That when you offer yourselves to someone

To Obey him as Slaves,

YOU ARE SLAVES TO THE ONE YOU OBEY--

Whether you are Slaves to Sin,

Which leads to Death,

Or to Obedience,

Which leads to Righteousness?

17 But thanks be to God

That, though you used to be Slaves to Sin,

You Wholeheartedly Obeyed the Form of Teaching

To which you were Entrusted.

18 YOU HAVE BEEN SET FREE FROM SIN

AND HAVE BECOME SLAVES TO RIGHTEOUSNESS.

19 I put this in human terms

Because you are weak in your Natural selves.

Just as you used to Offer the parts of your body

IN SLAVERY TO IMPURITY

AND TO EVER INCREASING WICKEDNESS,

So now Offer them in Slavery to Righteousness

Leading to Holiness.

20 When you were Slaves to Sin,

You were Free from the Control of Righteousness.

21 WHAT BENEFIT DID YOU REAP AT THAT TIME

FROM THE THINGS YOU ARE NOW ASHAMED OF?

THOSE THINGS RESULT IN DEATH!

22 BUT NOW THAT YOU HAVE BEEN SET FREE FROM SIN

AND HAVE BECOME SLAVES TO GOD,

THE BENEFIT YOU REAP LEADS TO HOLINESS,

AND THE RESULT IS ETERNAL LIFE.

21 FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH,

BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE

IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD.

(Romans 6:15-23)

Today, we see a World that is a Slave to Sin;

In obedience to the one who rules this World;

(1 John 5:19)

Slaves to Impurity and ever increasing Wickedness.

So far gone they feel no shame;

Not knowing that the Wages of Sin is Death;

Even Eternal Death.

But we who by Grace,

Have obeyed the Teaching of Christ Jesus,

Have been set free from Sin.

Leaving behind those things

We are now ashamed of.

We have become Slaves to God,

Which leads to Holiness

And Holiness, to Eternal Life.