Romans 6:16–22

¹⁶Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone ⁿas obedient slaves, ^oyou are slaves of that one you obey ^p—either of sin leading to death ^qor of obedience leading to righteousness? ¹⁷But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, ^ryou obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were transferred ^sto, ^t18and having been liberated from sin, ^uyou became enslaved to righteousness. ¹⁹I am using a human analogy ^vwbecause of the weakness of your flesh. ^xFor just as you offered the parts ^yof yourselves as slaves to moral impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification. ²⁰For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from allegiance to righteousness. ^za21So what fruit was produced ^bthen from the things you are now ashamed of? ^cFor the end of those things is death. ^d22But now, since you have been liberated from sin and have become enslaved to God, ^eyou have your fruit, which results in sanctification ^fg—and the end is eternal life! ^h