²⁰ When you were slaves to sin,^(A) you were free from the control of righteousness.^{(B) 21} What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!^(C)

²³ For the wages of sin is death,^(A) but the gift of God is eternal life^(B) in^[a] Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁵ Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin;^(A) and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.^(B)