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Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin (pas ho poiōn tēn hamartian doulos estin ̣tēs hamartiaš). The Western class omits tēs hamartias (sin), but that is the idea anyhow. Note the use of poiōn (present active participle, continuous habit or practice), not poiēsas (aorist active participle for single act), precisely as in 1Jo 3:4-8. Note also Joh 3:21 for ho poiōn tēn alētheian (the one who practises the truth). Sin, like the worst narcotic, is habit forming. Hence the problem today for criminologists for paroled or pardoned criminals nearly always go back to crime, sink again into sin, the slaves of sin. Xenophon has this notion of the slavery of sin (Memor. IV. 5. 3). So Paul clearly in Rom 6:17, Rom 6:20 “slaves of sin” (douloi tēs hamartias).