Romans 6

12 Therefore sin is not to reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, 13 and do not go on presenting *6:13 Lit your parts to sinthe parts of your body to sin as*6:13 Or weaponsinstruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and *6:13 Lit your parts asyour body’s parts as*6:13 Or weaponsinstruments of righteousness for God. 14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under *6:14 Or lawthe Law but under grace.

15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under *6:15 Or lawthe Law but under grace? *6:15 Lit May it never happen!Far from it! 16 Do you not know that the one to whom you present yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of that same one whom you obey, either of sin *6:16 Lit to deathresulting in death, or of obedience *6:16 Lit to righteousnessresulting in righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that *6:17 Lit you were slaves...but you becamethough you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that*6:17 Or patternform of teaching to which you were entrusted, 18 and after being freed from sin, you became slaves to righteousness.