Romans 6:22

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the fruit you have leads to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

Cross References

Genesis 50:17

‘Say to Joseph: I beg you, forgive the crime of your brothers and the wrong they did in harming you.’ Now therefore please forgive the crime of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

Job 1:8

The Lord said to the accuser, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and turns away from evil.”

Psalm 143:12

In your steadfast love cut off my enemies, and destroy all my adversaries, for I am your servant.

Psalm 86:2

Preserve my life, for I am devoted to you; save your servant who trusts in you. You are my God;

Psalm 92:14

In old age they still produce fruit; they are always green and full of sap,

Isaiah 54:17

No weapon that is fashioned against you shall prosper, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, says the Lord.

Daniel 3:26

Nebuchadnezzar then approached the door of the furnace of blazing fire and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!” So Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out from the fire.

Daniel 6:20

When he came near the den where Daniel was, he cried out anxiously to Daniel, “O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God whom you faithfully serve been able to deliver you from the lions?”

Numbers 23:10

Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the dust cloud of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let my end be like his!”

Matthew 13:40

Just as the weeds are collected and burned up with fire, so will it be at the end of the age.

Matthew 13:43

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let anyone with ears listen!

Matthew 19:29

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my name’s sake will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

Matthew 25:46

And these will go away into eternal punishment but the righteous into eternal life.”

John 15:16

You did not choose me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name.

John 15:2

He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit.

John 4:36

The reaper is already receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.

John 8:32

and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Romans 6:14

For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Romans 6:18

and that you, having been set free from sin, have become enslaved to righteousness.

Romans 6:21

So what fruit did you then gain from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death.

Romans 7:25

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I am enslaved to the law of God, but with my flesh I am enslaved to the law of sin.

Romans 7:4

In the same way, my brothers and sisters, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.

Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For whoever was called in the Lord as a slave is a freed person belonging to the Lord, just as whoever was free when called is a slave belonging to Christ.

2 Corinthians 3:17

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Galatians 1:10

Am I now seeking human approval or God’s approval? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still pleasing people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Galatians 5:13

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters, only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become enslaved to one another.

Galatians 5:22

By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,

Ephesians 5:9

for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true.

Philippians 1:11

having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.

Philippians 4:17

Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the profit that accumulates to your account.

Colossians 1:10

so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, as you bear fruit in every good work and as you grow in the knowledge of God.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, greets you. He is always striving in his prayers on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in everything that God wills.

Titus 1:1

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and the knowledge of the truth that is in accordance with godliness,

Hebrews 12:14

Pursue peace with everyone and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

James 1:1

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the dispersion: Greetings.

1 Peter 1:9

for you are receiving the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

1 Peter 2:16

As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.

Revelation 7:13

Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, robed in white, and where have they come from?”