12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

13 Do not yield your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God, as [one] alive from [the] dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness to God.

14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under Law, but under grace.

15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under Law, but under grace? Let it not be!

16 Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves [as] slaves for obedience, you are slaves to him whom you obey; whether it is of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness.

17 But thanks [be] to our God that you were the slaves of sin, but you have obeyed from [the] heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.

18 Then being made free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness.