Romans 6:12–23

¹²Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires, ¹³and do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness. ¹⁴For sin will not be master over you, because you are not under law, but under grace.

Set Free from Sin

¹⁵What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! ¹⁶Do 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? ¹⁷But thanks be to God that you were slaves of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted, ¹⁸and having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness. ¹⁹(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you presented your members as slaves to immorality and lawlessness, leading to lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification. ²⁰For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with respect to righteousness.

²¹Therefore what sort of fruit did you have then, about which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. ²²But now, having been set free from sin and having been enslaved to God, you have your fruit leading to sanctification, and its end is eternal life. ²³For the compensation due sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.