^6:15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not! ^6:16Do you not know that if you present yourselves¹³ as obedient slaves,¹⁴ you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?¹⁵^6:17But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed¹⁶ from the heart that pattern¹⁷ of teaching you were entrusted to, ^6:18and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness. ^6:19(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.)¹⁸ For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. ^6:20For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.

^6:21So what benefit¹⁹ did you then reap²⁰ from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death. ^6:22But now, freed²¹ from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit²² leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

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Romans 6:22: But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.

Footnotes

13 Grk “to whom you present yourselves.”
14 Grk “as slaves for obedience.” See the note on the word “slave” in .
15 Grk “either of sin unto death, or obedience unto righteousness.”
16 Grk “you were slaves of sin but you obeyed.”
17 Or “type, form.”
18 Or “because of your natural limitations” (). Verse 19 forms something of a parenthetical comment in Paul’s argument.
19 Grk “fruit.”
20 Grk “have,” in a tense emphasizing their customary condition in the past.
21 The two aorist participles translated “freed” and “enslaved” are causal in force; their full force is something like “But now, since you have become freed from sin and since you have become enslaved to God.…”
22 Grk “fruit.”