Romans 6:15-23

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 learned 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.

²²But now that you have been set free from the control of sin, and have become servants to God, the fruit that you reap is an ever increasing holiness, and the end eternal life.

²³The wages of sin are death, but the gift of God is eternal life, through union with Christ Jesus, our Lord.