¹² Therefore do not let sin reign^(A) in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.

¹⁶ Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey^(A)—whether you are slaves to sin,^(B) which leads to death,^(C) or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?

²² For in my inner being^(A) I delight in God’s law;^{(B) 23} but I see another law at work in me, waging war^(C) against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin^(D) at work within me. ²⁴ What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?^(E)

¹⁴ Since the children have flesh and blood,^(A) he too shared in their humanity^(B) so that by his death he might break the power^(C) of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil^(D)—

¹⁵ and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear^(A) of death.