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?

¹⁹ I am using an example from everyday life^(A) because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness^(B) leading to holiness.

³⁵ but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.^(A)

³³ But seek first his kingdom^(A) and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.^(B)

²² You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off^(A) your old self,^(B) which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;^(C)

²⁴ and to put on^(A) the new self,^(B) created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.^(C)