Romans 6

12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey  * 6:12 Other mss add sin (lit it) in its desires. 13 And do not offer any parts  * 6:13 Or members, also in v. 19 of it to sin  * 6:13 Rm 7:5; Col 3:5 as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God,  * 6:13 Rm 12:1; 2Co 5:14; 1Pt 2:24 and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness. 14 For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the law  * 6:14 Rm 5:18; 7:4,6; Gl 4:21 but under grace.  * 6:14 Rm 5:17,21

From Slaves of Sin to Slaves of God

15 What then? Should we sin because we are not under the law but under grace?  * 6:15 Rm 6:1 Absolutely not!  * 6:15 Lk 20:1616 Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone  * 6:16 Lit that to whom you offer yourselves as obedient slaves,  * 6:16 Rm 11:2; 1Co 3:16; 5:6; 6:2–3,9,15–16,19; 9:13,24 you are slaves of that one you obey  * 6:16 Jn 8:34; 2Pt 2:19  — either of sin leading to death  * 6:16 Rm 6:23 or of obedience leading to righteousness? 17 But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin,  * 6:17 Rm 1:8; 2Co 2:14 you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching to which you were handed  * 6:17 Or entrusted over,  * 6:17 2Tm 1:318 and having been set free from sin,  * 6:18 Jn 8:32; Rm 8:2 you became enslaved to righteousness.