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, Or: which was handed on to you. 6 ¹⁸ and, emancipated from sin, 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.