²¹ What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!^{(A) 22} But now that you have been set free from sin^(B) and have become slaves of God,^(C) the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.^{(D) 23} For the wages of sin is death,^(E) but the gift of God is eternal life^(F) in^[a] Christ Jesus our Lord.