Bible in Basic English
"When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness."
— Romans 6:20, Bible in Basic English
“For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.”
“For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness. ”
“For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.”
“For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.”
But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;
And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.
I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.
When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.
What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.
But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.
For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.