16. Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as slaves to obey, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
17. But thanks be to God, for you were slaves of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of teaching to which you were entrusted,
18. and having been freed from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness.
19. I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for just as you have yielded your members as slaves to impurity and iniquity leading to more iniquity, even so now yield your members as slaves to righteousness unto holiness.
20. For when you were the slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.
21. What fruit did you have then from the things of which you are now ashamed? The result of those things is death.
22. But now, having been freed from sin and having become slaves of God, you have fruit unto holiness, and the end is eternal life.
23. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.