¹³ For you were called to freedom, brothers. ^(A)Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love ^(B)serve one another.

^16 (A)Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but ^(B)living as servants^[a] of God.

¹⁹ For ^(A)though I am free from all, ^(B)I have made myself a servant to all, that I might ^(C)win more of them.

⁹ But take care ^(A)that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block ^(B)to the weak.

The Example of Christ

15 ^(A)We who are strong ^(B)have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. ^2 (C)Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

¹⁴ For ^(A)the whole law is fulfilled in one word: ^(B)“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

^21 (A)submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

¹⁸ and, ^(A)having been set free from sin, ^(B)have become slaves of righteousness. ^19 (C)I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For ^(D)just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members ^(E)as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

^20 (F)For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. ^21 (G)But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things ^(H)of which you are now ashamed? ^(I)For the end of those things is death. ²² But now that you ^(J)have been set free from sin and ^(K)have become slaves of God, ^(L)the fruit you get leads to sanctification and ^(M)its end, eternal life.

^2 (A)Bear one another's burdens, and ^(B)so fulfill ^(C)the law of Christ.