12 Do not let then sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires; 13 neither present your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God; 14 for sin will not have lordship over you, for you are not under law, but under grace. 15 What then? Will we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be! 16 Have you not known that to whom you present yourselves servants for obedience, servants you are to him to whom you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? 17 And thanks to God, that you were servants of sin, and—were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were delivered up; 18 and having been freed from sin, you became servants to righteousness.