...Spirit of GOD, they are the sons of Gon. But GOD be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin : but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. I speak after the manner of...

...death, or of obedience unto " righteousness. But God be thanked that ye were " the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the "heart, that form of doctrine which was delivered " you." As it was an important fact, and of great notoriety, that numerous, learned, critical and pious commentators...

...us when writing to the Romans, he says, " But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin ; but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness." Rom. vi. 17, 18. Nor is it...

...vi. 17 : But God be thanked that ye tcere, (were in the past time, not now,) the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart, that form of doctrine which was delivered you. O Lord, I do believe the doctrines of thy Gospel; I know that I am delivered from sin as a master;...

...death, or of obedience unto righteousness ? 17. But God be thanked that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. 20. For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. 21. What fruit had ye in...

...doctrine from the heart, Rom. vi. 17, 18. '* But God be thanked, lhat ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you ; being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness." Here it is manifest, that...

...we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ : and rejoicing in hope of the glory of God, we have obeyed, from the heart, that form of doctrine, which was delivered unto us.' Once, indeed, when we were without the knowledge of Christ, " we were the servants of sin...

...God be thanked, thai ye were the servants of sin *," that is, '' God be thanked, that though ye icere such, ye are such no longer ;" " but," as he adds,...you are " sanctified also by the Spirit of our God." i. •< •' Are you arrived at this hope ? Let it be your great concern to show forth in your lives...

...the servants of sin ;" meaning obviously, " that although, that whereas you were the servants of sin, ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you-:" So here, " I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that while the wise in their own conceits,...

...24,) " No man can serve two masters." 17. Hut God be thanked that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. He both points out the change in themselves, and exhibits the joy arising therefrom, giving praise...