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Rom. 6:22 KJV (With Strong’s)

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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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But now.

Rom. 6:14,18• ¹⁴For sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under law but under grace.
¹⁸and having been freed from sin ye became bondservants to righteousness. (Rom. 6:14,18)

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Rom. 8:2• ²For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath freed me from the law of sin and death. (Rom. 8:2)

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John 8:32• ³²and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (John 8:32)

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2 Cor. 3:17• ¹⁷Now the Lord is the spirit, but where the Spirit of the Lord [is, there is] liberty; (2 Cor. 3:17)

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Gal. 5:13• ¹³For ye have been called for freedom, brethren: only [use] not your freedom for an opportunity to the flesh; but by love serve one another. (Gal. 5:13)

become.

Rom. 7:25• ²⁵I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself with the mind am serving God's law, but with the flesh sin's law. (Rom. 7:25)

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Gen. 50:17• (Gen. 50:17)

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Job 1:8• (Job 1:8)

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Psa. 86:2• (Psa. 86:2)

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Psa. 143:12• (Psa. 143:12)

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Isa. 54:17• (Isa. 54:17)

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Dan. 3:26• (Dan. 3:26)

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Dan. 6:20• (Dan. 6:20)

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Gal. 1:10• ¹⁰For am I now conciliating men or God? or do I seek to please men? [For] if any longer I were pleasing men, Christ's bondservant I should not be. (Gal. 1:10)

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Col. 4:12• ¹²There saluteth you Epaphras, who [is] of you, a bondman of Jesus Christ, always striving for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all [the] will of God. (Col. 4:12)

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Titus 1:1• ¹Paul, bondman of God and apostle of Jesus Christ according to faith of God's elect, and full knowledge of truth that is according to piety; (Titus 1:1)

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James 1:1• ¹James, bondman of God and of [the] Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that [are] in the dispersion, greeting. (James 1:1)

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1 Peter 2:16• ¹⁶as free, and not having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God's bondmen. (1 Peter 2:16)

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Rev. 7:13• ¹³And one of the elders answered, saying to me, These that are clothed with white robes, who are they, and whence came they? (Rev. 7:13)

ye have.

Psa. 92:14• (Psa. 92:14)

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John 15:2,16• ²Every branch in me not bearing fruit, he taketh it away; and every one that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
¹⁶Not ye chose me, but I chose you and appointed you that ye should go and bear fruit, and your fruit abide; that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he may give you. (John 15:2,16)

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Gal. 5:22• ²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control: (Gal. 5:22)

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Eph. 5:9• ⁹(for the fruit of the light [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth), (Eph. 5:9)

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Phil. 1:11• ¹¹being filled with the fruit of righteousness that [is] by Jesus Christ unto God's praise and glory. (Phil. 1:11)

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Phil. 4:17• ¹⁷Not that I am seeking the gift, but I am seeking the fruit that aboundeth unto your account. (Phil. 4:17)

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Col. 1:10• ¹⁰to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, in every good work bearing fruit, and increasing in the full knowledge of God, (Col. 1:10)

and the end.

Rom. 6:21• ²¹What fruit then had you at that time? [Things] of which ye are now ashamed, for the end of those things [is] death. (Rom. 6:21)

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Num. 23:10• (Num. 23:10)

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Psa. 37:37‑38• (Psa. 37:37‑38)

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Matt. 13:40,43• ⁴⁰{i}As then the darnel is gathered and is burned in the fire, thus it shall be in the completion of the age.{/i}
⁴³{i}Then the righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He that has ears, let him hear.{/i} (Matt. 13:40,43)

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Matt. 19:29• ²⁹{i}And everyone who has left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit life eternal.{/i} (Matt. 19:29)

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Matt. 25:46• ⁴⁶And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life everlasting. (Matt. 25:46)

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John 4:36• ³⁶He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal, that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. (John 4:36)

• Become servants to God-the true righteousness of obedience, like that of Christ Himself-they had their fruit already in holiness, and the end should be eternal life. (“Romans 6” by J.N. Darby)

• As in chapter 5:21, Paul views "eternal life" here as being something we reach at the end of the path of faith, when we get to heaven in a glorified state. Of course, we have it now as well, which the Apostle John calls, "life eternal"- John 3:16, 36, etc. (“The Believer's Identification With the Death of Christ: Romans 6-7:1-6” by B. Anstey)

• Verse 22 is sort of a summary of the truth presented in chapter 6. It says: --We are made "free from sin." --We have become "servants to God." --We have our "fruit unto holiness." --The "end is eternal life." (“The Believer's Identification With the Death of Christ: Romans 6-7:1-6” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But *now*, having got your freedom from sin, and having become bondmen to God, ye have your fruit unto holinessc, and the end eternal life.

JND Translation Notes

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Hagiasmos. See Note i at ch. 1.4.

W. Kelly Translation

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But now freed from sin, and made bondservants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end life eternal.