¹⁴ For ^(A)sin ^(B)will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Slaves to Righteousness

¹⁵ What then? ^(C)Are we to sin ^(D)because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! ¹⁶ Do you not know that if you present yourselves ^(E)to anyone as obedient slaves,^[a] you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? ¹⁷ But ^(F)thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the ^(G)standard of teaching to which you were committed, ¹⁸ and, ^(H)having been set free from sin, ^(I)have become slaves of righteousness. ^19 (J)I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For ^(K)just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members ^(L)as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

^20 (M)For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. ^21 (N)But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things ^(O)of which you are now ashamed? ^(P)For the end of those things is death. ²² But now that you ^(Q)have been set free from sin and ^(R)have become slaves of God, ^(S)the fruit you get leads to sanctification and ^(T)its end, eternal life. ^23 (U)For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The Law and Sin

⁷ What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, ^(A)I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if ^(B)the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”