Romans 6:16
Do you not know you are the servants of the master you obey, of the master to whom you yield yourselves obedient, whether it is Sin, whose service ends in death, or Obedience, whose service ends in righteousness?
John 8:34
Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave.
Matthew 6:24
No one can serve two masters: either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will stand by the one and despise the other ??you cannot serve both God and Mammon.
Romans 6:12-13
Sin is not to reign, then, over your mortal bodies and make you obey their passions;
Romans 6:17
Thank God, though you did serve sin, you have rendered whole-hearted obedience to what you were taught under the rule of faith;
Romans 6:19-23
(I use this human analogy to bring the truth home to your weak nature.) As you once dedicated your members to the service of vice and lawlessness, so now dedicate them to the service of righteousness that means consecration.