Romans 6:12–23

¹²Let not ^gsin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. ^13hDo not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but ⁱpresent yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. ¹⁴For ^jsin ^kwill have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Slaves to Righteousness

¹⁵What then? ^lAre we to sin ^mbecause we are not under law but under grace? By no means! ¹⁶Do you not know that if you present yourselves ⁿto anyone as obedient slaves,³ you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? ¹⁷But ^othanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the ^pstandard of teaching to which you were committed, ¹⁸and, ^qhaving been set free from sin, ^rhave become slaves of righteousness. ^19sI am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For ^tjust as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members ^uas slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

^20vFor when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. ^21wBut what fruit were you getting at that time from the things ^xof which you are now ashamed? ^yFor the end of those things is death. ²²But now that you ^zhave been set free from sin and ^ahave become slaves of God, ^bthe fruit you get leads to sanctification and ^cits end, eternal life. ^23dFor the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.