But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.
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- KJV But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
- BSB But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.
- NKJV But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.
- NASB But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.
- NLT But now you are free from the power of sin and have become slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to holiness and result in eternal life.
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Quick answer
Now freed from sin and enslaved to God, believers reap the fruit of holiness and, in the end, eternal life. God's service yields a harvest of life.
Overview
Paul sets the believer's new condition against the former one: freed from sin, bound to God, bearing fruit unto sanctification. The end is no longer death but eternal life, the gracious goal of God's saving work. Holiness here is both the present fruit and the path leading to glory.
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- 1 Pet 2:16as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
- Rom 6:18Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
- Rom 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
- Gal 5:13For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
- John 8:32You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
- Isa 54:17No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.
- Rom 6:14For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
- 1 Cor 7:22For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.
- 1 Pet 1:9receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
- Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
- Gal 1:10For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
- Rom 7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
- Rom 6:21What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
- Dan 3:26Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace: he spoke and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the middle of the fire.
- John 15:2Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
- Ps 143:12In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.
- Ps 92:14They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,
- Matt 25:46These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
- John 4:36He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
- Job 1:8Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”
- 2 Cor 3:17Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
- Phil 4:17Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
- Titus 1:1Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
- Col 1:10that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
- Phil 1:11being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
- Gen 50:17‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
- Ps 37:37–38Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
- Matt 13:40As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.
- Rev 7:13One of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and from where did they come?”
- Rom 7:25I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law.
- Num 23:10Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”
- Matt 19:29Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
- Matt 13:43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
- Eph 5:9for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
- John 15:16You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
- Dan 6:20When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a lamentable voice; the king spoke and said to Daniel, Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?
- Ps 86:2Preserve my soul, for I am godly. You, my God, save your servant who trusts in you.
- Jas 1:1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.
- Col 4:12Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
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