| Geneva Study Bible Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. People's New Testament 6:18 Being then made free from sin. When we died to sin, and were buried into Christ (Ro 6:3). Hence, being no longer sin's servants, we become the servants of righteousness. Wesley's Notes 6:18 Being then set free from sin - We may see the apostles method thus far at one view: - Chap. Ver.
1. Bondage to sin Ro 3:9
2. The knowledge of sin by the law; a sense of God's wrath; inward death Ro 3:20
3. The revelation of the righteousness of God in Christ through the gospel Ro 3:21
4. The centre of all, faith, embracing that righteousness Ro 3:22
5. Justification, whereby God forgives all past sin, and freely accepts the sinner Ro 3:24
6. The gift of the Holy Ghost; a sense of Ro 5:5, God's love new inward life Ro 6:4
7. The free service of righteousness Ro 6:12 Scofield Reference Notes Margin sin Sin. See Scofield Note: "Rom 3:23". Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 18. Being then-"And being"; it is the continuation and conclusion of the preceding sentence; not a new one. made free from Sin, ye became the servants of-"servants to" Righteousness-The case is one of emancipation from entire servitude to one Master to entire servitude to another, whose property we are (see on [2206]Ro 1:1). There is no middle state of personal independence; for which we were never made, and to which we have no claim. When we would not that God should reign over us, we were in righteous judgment "sold under Sin"; now being through grace "made free from Sin," it is only to become "servants to Righteousness," which is our true freedom. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 6:16-20 Every man is the servant of the master to whose commands he yields himself; whether it be the sinful dispositions of his heart, in actions which lead to death, or the new and spiritual obedience implanted by regeneration. The apostle rejoiced now they obeyed from the heart the gospel, into which they were delivered as into a mould. As the same metal becomes a new vessel, when melted and recast in another mould, so the believer has become a new creature. And there is great difference in the liberty of mind and spirit, so opposite to the state of slavery, which the true Christian has in the service of his rightful Lord, whom he is enabled to consider as his Father, and himself as his son and heir, by the adoption of grace. The dominion of sin consists in being willingly slaves thereto, not in being harassed by it as a hated power, struggling for victory. Those who now are the servants of God, once were the slaves of sin. | 
