Romans 6:10-21

¹⁰For in regard to the death that he died to sin, he died once for all. However, the life that he lives, he lives for God.

¹¹In the same way, you also must consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

¹²Therefore do not let sin rule in your mortal body in order that you may obey its lusts.

¹³Do not present the parts of your body to sin, to be tools used for unrighteousness. But present yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life, and present the parts of your body to God as tools to be used for righteousness.

¹⁴Do not allow sin to rule over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

¹⁵What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be.

¹⁶Do you not know that the one to whom you present yourselves as slaves is the one to which you are obedient, the one you must obey? This is true whether you are slaves to sin which leads to death, or slaves to obedience which leads to righteousness.

¹⁷But thanks be to God! For you were slaves of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching that you were given.

¹⁸You have been made free from sin, and you have been made slaves of righteousness.

¹⁹I speak like a man because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented the parts of your body as slaves to uncleanness and to evil, in the same way now, present the parts of your body as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.

²⁰For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.

²¹At that time, what fruit then did you have of the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.