Romans 6:16-20

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁶ Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone^[a] as obedient slaves,^(A) you are slaves of that one you obey^(B)—either of sin leading to death^(C) or of obedience leading to righteousness? ¹⁷ But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin,^(D) you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were transferred^[b] to,^{(E) 18} and having been liberated from sin,^(F) you became enslaved to righteousness. ¹⁹ I am using a human analogy^[c](G) because of the weakness of your flesh.^[d] For just as you offered the parts^[e] of yourselves as slaves to moral impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification. ²⁰ For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from allegiance to righteousness.^[f](H)