Romans 6:15-23 - Set Free From Sin
15 What are we to conclude? Are we to keep on sinning, because we are not living as slaves to law but as subjects to God's favor? Never! 16 Do you not know that when you habitually offer yourselves to anyone for obedience to him, you are slaves to that one whom you are in the habit of obeying, whether it is the slavery to sin whose end is death or to obedience whose end is right-doing? 17 But, thank God, that though you once were slaves of sin, you became obedient from your hearts to that form of teaching in which you have been instructed, 18 and since you have been freed from sin, you have become the slaves of right-doing. 19 I am speaking in familiar human terms because of the frailty of your nature. For just as you formerly offered the parts of your bodies in slavery to impurity and to ever increasing lawlessness, so now you must once for all offer them in slavery to right-doing, which leads to consecration. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free so far as doing right was concerned. 21 What benefit did you then derive from doing the things of which you are now ashamed? None, for they end in death. 22 But now, since you have been freed from sin and have become the slaves of God, the immediate result is consecration, and the final destiny is eternal life. 23 For the wages paid by sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life through union with Christ Jesus our Lord.