15. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16. Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17. But God be thanked, that you were the servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
18. Being then made free from sin, you became 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 servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
20. For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
21. What fruit had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
22. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
23. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.