Romans 6:15-23

¹⁵What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Of course not!

¹⁶Do you not know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey them as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether of sin into death, or of obedience into righteousness?

¹⁷But thanks be to God that although you used to be the slaves of the sin you wholeheartedly obeyed that pattern of doctrine into which you were delivered.

¹⁸So having been emancipated from the sin, you became enslaved to the righteousness.

¹⁹I continue to speak on a human level because of the weakness of your flesh. Now just as you used to present your body parts as slaves to uncleanness, and to ever increasing lawlessness, so now present your body parts as slaves to righteousness with a view to sanctification.

²⁰For when you were slaves to the sin, you were ‘free’ from the righteousness.

²¹So what ‘fruit’ did you have at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? The end of those things is death!

²²But now, having been emancipated from the sin, and having become enslaved to God, you have your ‘fruit’ into sanctification—and the end is eternal life!

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