Romans 6:12–23

¹²Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires; ¹³neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God; ¹⁴for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace. ¹⁵What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be! ¹⁶have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? ¹⁷and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and—were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up; ¹⁸and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness. ¹⁹In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness—to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness—to sanctification, ²⁰for when ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness, ²¹what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those is death. ²²And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit—to sanctification, and the end life age-during; ²³for the wages of the sin is death, and the gift of God is life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Chapter 7