6 ¹⁵ What then? Are we to sin, because we are not under law but under grace? Of course not. 6 ¹⁶ You know well enough that if you put yourselves at the disposal of a master, to obey him, you are slaves of the master whom you obey; and this is true whether you serve sin, with death as its result; or obedience, with righteousness as its result. 6 ¹⁷ But God be thanked, you, who once were slaves of sin, have yielded wholehearted obedience to the pattern of teaching to which you were made subject, 6 ¹⁸ and, emancipated from sin, is have become slaves of righteousness 6 ¹⁹ (to use words that suit your human weakness) - I mean, as you once yielded your bodies to the service of impurity and lawlessness, making for moral anarchy, so now you must yield them to the service of righteousness, making for a holy life.
6 ²⁰ When you were slaves of sin, you were free from the control of righteousness; 6 ²¹ and what was the gain? Nothing but what now makes you ashamed, for the end of that is death. 6 ²² But now, freed from the commands of sin, and bound to the service of God, your gains are such as make for holiness, and the end is eternal life. 6 ²³ For sin pays a wage, and the wage is death, but God gives freely, and his gift is eternal life, in union with Christ Jesus our Lord.