Romans 6:16-23 ▼

16 Have you not known that to whom you present yourselves servants for obedience, servants you are to him to whom you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

17 And thanks to God, that you were servants of sin, and—were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were delivered up;

18 and having been freed from sin, you became servants to righteousness.

19 I speak in a human [way], because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as you presented your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness—to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to righteousness—to sanctification,

20 for when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.

21 What fruit, therefore, were you having then, in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those [is] death.

22 And now, having been freed from sin, and having become servants to God, you have your fruit—to sanctification, and the end continuous life;

23 for the wages of sin [is] death, and the gift of God [is] continuous life in Christ Jesus our Lord.