Romans 6:10-21

¹⁰For the death that he died was a death to sin, once and for all. But the life that he now lives, he lives for God.

¹¹So let it be with you — regard yourselves as dead to sin, but as living for God, through union with Christ Jesus.

¹²Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies and compel you to obey its cravings.

¹³Do not offer any part of your bodies to sin, in the cause of unrighteousness, but once for all offer yourselves to God (as those who, though once dead, now have life), and devote every part of your bodies to the cause of righteousness.

¹⁴For sin will not lord it over you. You are living under the reign, not of Law, but of love.

¹⁵What follows, then? Are we to sin because we are living under the reign of love and not of Law? Heaven forbid!

¹⁶Surely you know that, when you offer yourselves as servants, to obey anyone, you are the servants of the person whom you obey, whether the service be a service sin which leads to death, or a service Duty which leads to righteousness.

¹⁷God be thanked that, though you were once servants of sin, yet you learnt to give hearty obedience to that form of doctrine under which you were placed.

¹⁸Set free from the control of sin, you became servants to righteousness.

¹⁹I can but speak as people do because of the weakness of your earthly nature. Once you offered every part of your bodies to the service of impurity, and of wickedness, which leads to further wickedness. Now, in the same way, offer them to the service of righteousness, which leads to holiness.

²⁰While you were still servants of sin, you were free as regards righteousness.

²¹But what were the fruits that you reaped from those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of such things is death.