15 What then? shall we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? No, in no wise. 16 Or know ye not that to whom ye present yourselves slaves to obey, his slaves ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death or of the obedience unto righteousness? 17 Thank God that, although ye were the slaves of sin, ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine unto which ye are delivered; 18 and freed from sin, ye are become the slaves of righteousness. 19 I speak a human thing because of the weakness of our flesh: that as ye presented your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity unto iniquity, likewise now present your members to serve righteousness unto holiness.
20 For being previously the slaves of sin, now ye have been made the slaves of righteousness. 21 What fruit had ye then in those things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. 22 But now freed from sin and made slaves to God, ye have as your fruit sanctification and as the end, everlasting life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the grace of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.