John 8:34

Easy To Read Version

Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth. Every person that sins is a slave. Sin is his master.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:25

There is no other person that has done so many wrong things or sinned so much as Ahab. His wife Jezebel caused him to do those things.

Proverbs 5:22

The sins of an evil person will trap him. His sins will be like ropes holding him.

Matthew 5:18

I tell you the truth. Nothing will disappear from the law until heaven and earth are gone. The law will not lose even the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter until all has happened.

John 3:3

Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth. A person must be born again. If a person is not born again, then that person cannot be in God’s kingdom.”

Acts 8:23

I see that you are full of bitter jealousy and ruled by sin.”

Romans 6:12

But don’t let sin control you in your life here on earth. You must not be ruled by the things your sinful self makes you want to do.

Romans 6:16

Surely you know that when you give yourselves like slaves to obey someone, then you are really slaves of that person. The person you obey is your master. You can follow sin, or obey God. Sin brings spiritual death. But obeying God makes you right with him.

Romans 6:6

We know that our old life died with Christ on the cross. This happened so that our sinful selves would have no power over us. And then we would not be slaves to sin.

Romans 7:14

We know that the law {\cf2\super [57]} is spiritual. But I am not spiritual. Sin rules me like I am its slave.

Romans 7:25

God \{will save me\}! I thank him \{for his salvation\} through Jesus Christ our Lord!

Romans 8:21

That everything God made would be made free from ruin (decay). There was hope that everything God made would have the freedom and glory that belong to God’s children.

Ephesians 2:2

Yes, in the past you lived doing those sins. You lived the way the world lives. You followed the ruler of the evil powers over the earth. That same spirit is now working in those people who refuse to obey God.

Titus 3:3

Grace (kindness) and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 2:19

These false teachers promise that those people will have freedom. But the false teachers themselves are not free. They are slaves of things that will be destroyed. A person is a slave to the thing that controls him.