Readings for Lent and Easter

¹² Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey its lusts;

¹³ nor give the parts of your body to sin, as weapons of unrighteousness. But give yourselves to God, as those who are alive from the dead. And give the parts of your body to God, as weapons of righteousness.

¹⁴ For sin shall not have dominion over you. For you are not under the Law, but under grace.

¹⁵ What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the Law, but under grace? Absolutely not!

¹⁶ Do you not know that to whomever you give yourselves as servants, to obey, you are his servants whom you obey; whether it be of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

¹⁷ Thanks be to God that, although you had been the servants of sin, you have obeyed (from the heart) the type of doctrine by which you were delivered.

¹⁸ Being then made free from sin, you are made the servants of righteousness.