15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! 16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sinj Lit to deathresulting in death, or of obediencek Lit to righteousnessresulting in righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God thatl Lit you were slaves...but you becamethough you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, 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,m Lit to lawlessnessresulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness,n Lit to sanctificationresulting in sanctification. | |
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 Therefore whato Lit fruitbenefit were you thenp Lit havingderivingq Lit infrom the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death. 22 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, your Lit havederive yours Lit fruitbenefit,t Lit to sanctificationresulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. | |