Romans 6 Footnotes

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6:16,22 Paul’s positive use of the metaphor of slavery may strike Christians today as offensive. However, slavery’s pervasiveness in the ancient world helped convey his point graphically. In fact, everyone is a slave either to sin—an evil, malicious slave master—or to God. God grants his slaves eternal life and freedom from sin’s destructive power. Sin pays death as wages; God grants life (v. 23).