Romans 6:16-18

Worldwide English (New Testament)

¹⁶ If you give yourselves to be slaves and obey your master, you are not free. You are his slaves. Do you not know this: you may be slaves to wrong things? But you will not live for ever. Or you may be slaves to obey God. Then you will be made good people and live with him.

¹⁷ You were at one time slaves to wrong things. But I praise God that you obeyed what your teachers taught you. And you obeyed because you wanted to obey.

¹⁸ You were made free from doing wrong things. You were made slaves to good things.