Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever [or 'Everyone that' pas (G3956 ) ho (G3588 )] committeth sin - that is to say, 'liveth in the commission of it' (compare 1 John 3:8; Matthew 7:23),
Is the servant of sin - the bond-servant, or slave of it; because the question is not about free-service, bait Who are in bondage? (Compare 2 Peter 2:19; Romans 6:16). The great truth here expressed was not unknown to pagan moralists; but it was applied only to vice, because they were total strangers to what in Revealed Religion is called sin. But the thought of slaves and freemen in the house suggests to our Lord a wider idea.