12 Don’t let sin have control over your mortal body, don’t give in to its temptations, 13 and don’t use any parts of your body as evil tools of sin. Instead dedicate yourselves to God as those who have been brought back from death to life, and use all parts of your body as tools to do something good for God. 14 Sin won’t rule over you, because you’re not under law but under grace.

15 So then, should we sin because we’re not under law, but under grace? Of course not! 16 Don’t you realize that if you make yourselves someone’s slaves, obeying their orders, then you are slaves to the one you obey? If you are slaves of sin, the result is death; if you obey God, the result is you are made right with him. 17 Thank God that though you once were slaves to sin, you whole-heartedly chose to follow the truth about God that you learned. 18 Now that you’ve been freed from sin, you’ve become slaves of doing what is morally right.