Romans 6:16-23 ▼

16 Do you not know that when you go on presenting yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?

17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching to which you were given over,

18 and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of 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 impurity and to lawlessness, leading to further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification.

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

21 Therefore what benefit were you then having from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

22 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit, leading to sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.