Romans 6:15-23 - Set Free From Sin

¹⁵ What follows, then? Are we to sin, because we live not under law but under mercy? Certainly not! ¹⁶ Do you not know that when you submit to being someone's slaves, and obeying him, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey, whether your slavery is to sin, and leads to death, or is to obedience, and leads to uprightness? ¹⁷ But, thank God! though you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient from your hearts to the standard of teaching that you received, ¹⁸ and so you have been freed from sin, and made slaves of uprightness. ¹⁹ I use these familiar human terms because of the limitations of your nature. For just as you before gave up the parts of your bodies in slavery to vice and greater and greater license, you must now give them up in slavery to uprightness, which leads to consecration. ²⁰ For when you were slaves of sin, you were free as far as uprightness was concerned. ²¹ What good did you get from doing the things you are now ashamed of? Why, they result in death! ²² But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you get is consecration, and the final result is eternal life. ²³ For the wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is eternal life through union with Christ Jesus our Lord.