19 (A)I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For (B)just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members (C)as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

20 (D)For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 (E)But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things (F)of which you are now ashamed? (G)For the end of those things is death. 22 But now that you (H)have been set free from sin and (I)have become slaves of God, (J)the fruit you get leads to sanctification and (K)its end, eternal life. 23 (L)For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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