“Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.”
You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. — The paradox crystallizes: freedom from sin is simultaneously enslavement to righteousness (δικαιοσύνη, dikaiosynē). The ἐλευθερόω (eleutherōō, "freed") is completed action; the subsequent δουλεία is the new status. Christian liberty is not autonomy but theonomous bondage—willing service to justice.
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