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OET (OET-RV) When you were all slaves of sin, you were immune to righteousness
OET-LV For/Because when slaves you_all_were of_ the _sin, free you_all_were the from_righteousness.
SR-GNT Ὅτε γὰρ δοῦλοι ἦτε τῆς ἁμαρτίας, ἐλεύθεροι ἦτε τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ. ‡
(Hote gar douloi aʸte taʸs hamartias, eleutheroi aʸte taʸ dikaiosunaʸ.)
Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, pink:genitive/possessor, cyan:dative/indirect object.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
ULT For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with respect to righteousness.
UST This is because when you used to submit yourselves to living sinfully, you were not living righteously.
BSB § For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.
BLB For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.
AICNT For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
OEB While you were still servants of sin, you were free as regards righteousness.
WEBBE For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
WMBB (Same as above)
NET For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.
LSV for when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
FBV When you were slaves to sin you were not required to do what's right.
TCNT For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.
T4T When you were like slaves because your sinful desires compelled you to do sinful things [MET], you were not concerned about behaving righteously [MET].
LEB For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with respect to righteousness.
BBE When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.
Moff No Moff ROM book available
Wymth For when you were the bondservants of sin, you were under no sort of subjection to Righteousness.
ASV For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.
DRA For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice.
YLT for when ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness,
Drby For when ye were bondmen of sin ye were free from righteousness.
RV For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.
Wbstr For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
KJB-1769 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
(For when ye/you_all were the servants of sin, ye/you_all were free from righteousness. )
KJB-1611 [fn]For when yee were the seruants of sinne ye were free from righteousnesse.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)
6:20 Gr. to righteousnesse.
Bshps For when ye were the seruauntes of sinne, ye were free from ryghteousnesse.
(For when ye/you_all were the servants of sin, ye/you_all were free from righteousnesse.)
Gnva For when ye were the seruants of sinne, ye were freed from righteousnesse.
(For when ye/you_all were the servants of sin, ye/you_all were freed from righteousness. )
Cvdl For whan ye were the seruauntes of synne, ye were lowse from righteousnes.
(For when ye/you_all were the servants of sin, ye/you_all were lowse from righteousness.)
TNT For when ye were the servauntes of synne ye were not vnder rightewesnes.
(For when ye/you_all were the servants of sin ye/you_all were not under rightewesnes. )
Wycl For whanne ye weren seruauntis of synne, ye weren fre of riytfulnesse.
(For when ye/you_all were servants of sin, ye/you_all were free of riytfulnesse.)
Luth Denn da ihr der Sünde Knechte waret, da waret ihr frei von der Gerechtigkeit.
(Because there you/their/her the/of_the Sünde servant(s) waret, there waret you/their/her frei from the/of_the Gerechtigkeit.)
ClVg Cum enim servi essetis peccati, liberi fuistis justitiæ.[fn]
(Since because servi essetis peccati, liberi fuistis justitiæ. )
6.20 Liberi. Libertas servi est, quando eum peccare delectat, quod est ex libero arbitrio. Liberaliter servit, qui voluntatem Domini libenter facit; sic et justitiæ libere servit, qui amat, qui lætatur.
6.20 Liberi. Libertas servi it_is, when him peccare delectat, that it_is from libero arbitrio. Liberaliter servit, who voluntatem Master libenter facit; so and justitiæ libere servit, who amat, who lætatur.
UGNT ὅτε γὰρ δοῦλοι ἦτε τῆς ἁμαρτίας, ἐλεύθεροι ἦτε τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ.
(hote gar douloi aʸte taʸs hamartias, eleutheroi aʸte taʸ dikaiosunaʸ.)
SBL-GNT Ὅτε γὰρ δοῦλοι ἦτε τῆς ἁμαρτίας, ἐλεύθεροι ἦτε τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ.
(Hote gar douloi aʸte taʸs hamartias, eleutheroi aʸte taʸ dikaiosunaʸ.)
TC-GNT Ὅτε γὰρ δοῦλοι ἦτε τῆς ἁμαρτίας, ἐλεύθεροι ἦτε τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ.
(Hote gar douloi aʸte taʸs hamartias, eleutheroi aʸte taʸ dikaiosunaʸ. )
Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs (from our SR-GNT base).
6:20 free from the obligation to do right (literally free from righteousness): Paul means either that unbelievers feel no obligation to obey God or that they are unable to do so. But the freedom that they boast of actually makes them slaves to sin.
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
γὰρ
for
For here introduces a result clause. Use a natural way in your language to indicate result. Alternate translation: [This reason for this is that]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / personification
ὅτε & δοῦλοι ἦτε τῆς ἁμαρτίας, ἐλεύθεροι ἦτε τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ
when & slaves ˱you_all˲_were ¬the ˱of˲_sin free ˱you_all˲_were ¬the ˱from˲_righteousness
Here, Paul speaks of sin and righteousness as if they were slave-masters. Paul means that when his readers had previously used their bodies to act sinfully, they were not serving God’s purposes as slaves of righteousness. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [when you were controlled by sin, you did not serve God] or [when you were living sinfully, you did not live righteously]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / irony
ἐλεύθεροι ἦτε τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ
free ˱you_all˲_were ¬the ˱from˲_righteousness
Paul is not making a serious suggestion here that sinful people are not required to live righteously. Paul means to communicate the opposite of the literal meaning of free. If this would be misunderstood in your language, consider expressing the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [you were unrighteous] or [you were unable to live righteously]