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. ²⁰ When you were slaves to sin,^(C) you were free from the control of righteousness.^{(D) 21} What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!^{(E) 22} But now that you have been set free from sin^(F) and have become slaves of God,^(G) the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.^{(H) 23} For the wages of sin is death,^(I) but the gift of God is eternal life^(J) in^[a] Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁹ Do you not know that your bodies are temples^(A) of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;^{(B) 20} you were bought at a price.^(C) Therefore honor God with your bodies.^(D)

²³ You were bought at a price;^(A) do not become slaves of human beings.

¹⁷ Since you call on a Father^(A) who judges each person’s work^(B) impartially,^(C) live out your time as foreigners^(D) here in reverent fear.^{(E) 18} For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed^(F) from the empty way of life^(G) handed down to you from your ancestors, ¹⁹ but with the precious blood^(H) of Christ, a lamb^(I) without blemish or defect.^(J)