Romans 6:12–23

¹²Therefore do not let sin ^areign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,

¹³and do not go on ^apresenting your members to sin as ¹instruments of unrighteousness, but ^bpresent yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as ²instruments of righteousness to God.

¹⁴For ^asin shall not ^bbe master over you, for ^cyou are not under law but ^dunder grace.

Slaves of Righteousness

¹⁵What then? ^aShall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? ^bMay it never be!

¹⁶Do you not ^aknow that when you go on presenting yourselves to someone as ^bslaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of ^csin ¹leading to death, or of obedience ²leading to righteousness?

¹⁷But ^athanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that ^bpattern of teaching to which you were ^cgiven over,

¹⁸and having been ^afreed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

^19aI am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just ^bas you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, ¹leading to further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, ²leading to sanctification.

²⁰For ^awhen you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

²¹Therefore what ^1abenefit were you then having ²from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is ^bdeath.

²²But now having been ^afreed from sin and ^benslaved to God, you have your ^1cbenefit, ²leading to sanctification, and ^dthe end, eternal life.

²³For the wages of ^asin is death, but the gracious gift of God is ^beternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.