Romans 6:15-23 - Set Free From Sin

¹⁵ Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under the authority of Law, but under grace? No, indeed! ¹⁶ Do you not know that if you surrender yourselves as bondservants to obey any one, you become the bondservants of him whom you obey, whether the bondservants of Sin (with death as the result) ¹⁷ But thanks be to God that though you were once in thraldom to Sin, you have now yielded a hearty obedience to that system of truth in which you have been instructed. ¹⁸ You were set free from the tyranny of Sin, and became the bondservants of Righteousness-- ¹⁹ your human infirmity leads me to employ these familiar figures--and just as you once surrendered your faculties into bondage to Impurity and ever-increasing disregard of Law, so you must now surrender them into bondage to Righteousness ever advancing towards perfect holiness. ²⁰ For when you were the bondservants of sin, you were under no sort of subjection to Righteousness. ²¹ At that time, then, what benefit did you get from conduct which you now regard with shame? Why, such things finally result in death. ²² But now that you have been set free from the tyranny of Sin, and have become the bondservants of God, you have your reward in being made holy, and you have the Life of the Ages as the final result. ²³ For the wages paid by Sin are death; but God's free gift is the Life of the Ages bestowed upon us in Christ Jesus our Lord.