Romans 6:20

WEB

²⁰For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.

KJV

²⁰For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

BSB

²⁰For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.

FBV

²⁰When you were slaves to sin you were not required to do what's right.

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Extra References

Romans 6:16-17

¹⁶Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? ¹⁷But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

John 8:34

³⁴Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.