Romans 6:15-23 - Set Free From Sin

¹⁵ What follows, then? Are we 'to sin, because we live under grace, not under law'? Never! 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? ¹⁷ Thank God, though you did serve sin, you have rendered whole-hearted obedience to what you were taught under the rule of faith; ¹⁸ set free from sin, you have passed into the service of righteousness. ¹⁹ (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. ²⁰ When you served sin, you were free of righteousness. ²¹ Well, what did you gain then by it all? Nothing but what you are now ashamed of! The end of all that is death; ²² but now that you are set free from sin, now that you have passed into the service of God, your gain is consecration, and the end of that is life eternal. ²³ Sin's wage is death, but God's gift is life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.