Romans 6:15–22

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 present yourselves to someone as ^bslaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of ^csin ¹resulting in death, or of obedience ²resulting in righteousness?

¹⁷But ^athanks be to God that ¹though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that ^bform of teaching to which you were committed,

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, ¹resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, ²resulting in sanctification.

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

²¹Therefore what ^1abenefit were you then ²deriving ³from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is ^bdeath.

²²But now having been ^afreed from sin and ^benslaved to God, you ¹derive your ^2cbenefit, ³resulting in sanctification, and ^dthe outcome, eternal life.