Romans 6:15-23

¹⁵What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

¹⁶Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to whom you obey, whether of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?

¹⁷But thanks be to God, that though you used to be slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from your heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.

¹⁸And having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

¹⁹I speak in human terms on account of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to uncleanness, and to lawlessness resulting in more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness resulting in sanctification.

²⁰For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

²¹So what fruit did you have then of which things you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

²²But now having been freed from sin, and having become enslaved to God, you have your fruit resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.

²³For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.