Romans 6:15-23 - Set Free From Sin
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under the gospel? 16 by no means. know ye not, that to whom ye subject your selves vassals at command, his vassals you are whom you thus obey; the vassals either of sin to destruction, or of obedience to justification? 17 but God be thanked, that you, who were the vassals of sin, have sincerely obeyed in the manner the gospel prescribed. 18 being then set free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. 19 (I allude to civil affairs, because of your unacquaintedness with spiritual matters:) as then you made your natural faculties subservient to impurity, and all manner of vice; make them now subservient to virtue and holiness. 20 for when ye were the vassals of sin, ye were not in the service of virtue. 21 what benefit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? since they terminated all in death. 22 but now being set free from sin, and actually in the service of God, the present advantage you reap is holiness, and the future everlasting life. 23 for the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.