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?

What benefit did you then derive from doing the things of which you are now ashamed? None, for they end in death.

For Christ has put an end to law as a way to right standing for everyone who puts his trust in Him.

for this is the reason why you pay your taxes, for the civil authorities are God's official servants faithfully devoting themselves to this very end.