Romans 6:15–23

From Slaves of Sin to Slaves of God

15 What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? l Absolutely not! m 16 Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone n as obedient * slaves, o you are slaves of that one you obey p—either of sin leading to death q or of obedience leading to righteousness? 17 But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, r you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were transferred s to, t 18 and having been liberated from sin, u you became enslaved to righteousness. 19 I am using a human analogy v w because of the weakness of your flesh. x For just as you offered the parts y of yourselves as slaves to moral impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in * sanctification. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from allegiance to righteousness. z a 21 So what fruit was produced b then from the things you are now ashamed of? c For the end of those things is death. d 22 But now, since you have been liberated from sin and have become enslaved to God, e you have your fruit, which results in sanctification f g—and the end is eternal life! h 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. i