12 Let no sin rule in your mortal body, that you should obey the lustful desires.

13 Also do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness for God.

14 Sin will 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? God forbid!

16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient servants you are his voluntary servants because you obey him? This could be obedience to sin with death in view or obedience to righteousness with holiness in view?

17 But thanks to God, that you were the servants of sin yet you became obedient from the heart to the teachings delivered to you.

18 After being made free from sin, you became servants of righteousness.