The Believer’s Enslavement to God’s Righteousness

¹⁵ What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not! ¹⁶ Do you not know that if you present yourselves^[a] as obedient slaves,^[b] you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?^{[c] 17} But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed^[d] from the heart that pattern^[e] of teaching you were entrusted to, ¹⁸ and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness. ¹⁹ (I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.)^[f] For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.