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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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Verse 20–22. You were free from justice; that is, says Saint John Chrysostom you lived as no ways subject to justice, nor obedient to the law and precepts of God: an unhappy freedom, a miserable liberty, worse than the greatest slavery, the end of which is death, eternal death: of which sins with great reason you are now ashamed, when you are become the servants of God, and obedient to him, for which you will receive the fruit and reward of everlasting life in heaven. Witham.
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