Romans 6:12-23

English Standard Version

¹² Let not ^(A)sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. ^13 (B)Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but ^(C)present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. ¹⁴ For ^(D)sin ^(E)will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Slaves to Righteousness

¹⁵ What then? ^(F)Are we to sin ^(G)because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! ¹⁶ Do you not know that if you present yourselves ^(H)to anyone as obedient slaves,^[a] you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? ¹⁷ But ^(I)thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the ^(J)standard of teaching to which you were committed, ¹⁸ and, ^(K)having been set free from sin, ^(L)have become slaves of righteousness. ^19 (M)I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For ^(N)just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members ^(O)as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

^20 (P)For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. ^21 (Q)But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things ^(R)of which you are now ashamed? ^(S)For the end of those things is death. ²² But now that you ^(T)have been set free from sin and ^(U)have become slaves of God, ^(V)the fruit you get leads to sanctification and ^(W)its end, eternal life. ^23 (X)For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.