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16 Do you not know, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are, for you obey him, whether it be to sin or whether it be of obedience to righteousness? 17 But thank God that you, who were once the servants of sin, now obey from the heart that form of doctrine which has been delivered to you. 18 Now, being made free from sin, you become the servants of righteousness. 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the weakness of your flesh: for as you have yielded your members to the servitude of uncleanness and iniquity, so now yield your members to the servitude of righteousness and holiness. 20 For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. 21 What kind of fruit did you have then, in the things of which you are now ashamed? for the end thereof is death. 22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, your fruits are holy, and the end thereof is life everlasting. 23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through our LORD Jesus Christ. Romans 6:16-23, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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