¹⁶Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone^D as obedient slaves,^at you are slaves of that one you obey^au—either of sin leading to death^av or of obedience leading to righteousness?

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Footnotes

D that to whom you offer yourselves

Cross references

at Rm 11:2; 1Co 3:16; 5:6; 6:2–3,9,15–16,19; 9:13,24
au Jn 8:34; 2Pt 2:19
av Rm 6:23

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?

NLTNew Living Translation

Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Do you not know that to whomever you present yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to whomever you obey, whether sin, leading to death, or obedience, leading to righteousness?

KJV 1900King James Version

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

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