Romans 6:22 Meaning and Explanation
“But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.”
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Read Full Chapter →Now freed from sin and serving God, believers bear fruit that leads to holiness, with everlasting life as the end.
What Does Romans 6:22 Mean?
With 'but now' Paul turns from the barren past to the fruitful present. Freed from sin and made servants of God, believers bear a harvest 'unto holiness,' a life increasingly set apart for Him. And the destination is wholly different from sin's: not death, but 'everlasting life.'
Here is the glad reversal at the heart of the gospel. The same energies that once led to shame and death now, under a new Master, yield holiness and life without end. Service to God is no loss but the path to the fullest life there is. Paul holds out this hope to encourage the believer onward, for the road of holiness opens at last into eternal life.
Romans 6:22 in the Original Language
zoe aionios (ζωὴ αἰώνιος), 'everlasting life' -- the unending life of the age to come, life in fellowship with God.
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What does Romans 6:22 mean?
Now freed from sin and serving God, believers bear fruit that leads to holiness, with everlasting life as the end.