¹⁸ You have been set free from sin^(A) and have become slaves to righteousness.^(B)

¹⁹ I am using an example from everyday life^(C) because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness^(D) leading to holiness. ²⁰ When you were slaves to sin,^(E) you were free from the control of righteousness.^{(F) 21} What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!^{(G) 22} But now that you have been set free from sin^(H) and have become slaves of God,^(I) the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.^(J)

²² For the one who was a slave when called to faith in the Lord is the Lord’s freed person;^(A) similarly, the one who was free when called is Christ’s slave.^(B)

Paul’s Use of His Freedom

¹⁹ Though I am free^(A) and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone,^(B) to win as many as possible.^(C)