Romans 6:22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

But now

Galatians 5:13

Become

Revelation 7:13

Ye have

And the end

John 4:36

General references

1 Peter 1:9

Bible References

But now

For sin shall not lord it over you; for you are not under the rule of law, but under the rule of grace.

for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.

"and you shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

(The Lord means the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord abides there is freedom.)

For you, brothers, were called for freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for self-indulgence, but in love enslave yourselves to one another.

Become

Oh, thank God! it is through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself in my will am in thralldom to the law of God; yet in my animal nature I am in thralldom to the law of sin.

Think you that I am now trying to conciliate men or God? Or am I "seeking to please men"? If I were still seeking to please men, I should not be a slave of Christ.

Epaphras, one of yourselves, salutes you, a slave of Christ who is always agonizing for you in his prayers, that you may stand firm, mature, and fully assured in all the will of God.

To Titus, my true son in a common faith, from Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and to the knowledge of the truth which goes with piety;

James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends greeting to the twelve tribes that are scattered abroad.

Live like free men; and yet do not make your freedom a cloak for misconduct, but be the slaves of God.

And one of the Elders spoke to me, saying. "Who are these, clad in white robes? Whence come they?"

Ye have

"He cuts back any of my branches that bear no fruit, and prunes every fruit-bearing branch, that it may bear more.

But the harvest-fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness, and self-control;

Lead the life of children of light, for the fruit of the light consists in every kind of goodness and uprightness and truth.

being filled with the fruit of righteousness through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

It is not your gifts I am eager for, but I am eager for the abundant profit that accrues to your divine account.

that you may walk worthy of the Lord in every kind of pleasing; that you may be fruitful in every kind of good work, and may increase in the knowledge of God;

And the end

What harvest-fruit then had you at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

"Just as the weeds are collected together and burnt with fire, so will it be at the end of the age.

"And every one who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, for my sake, shall many times as much, and fall heir to eternal life.

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

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

General references

as you continually receive the reward of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.