12 Let not sin, therefore, reign in your death-doomed body, that ye should be obedient to its covetings;

13 Neither be presenting your members as weapons of unrighteousness unto sin, but present yourselves unto God as though alive from among the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness unto God;

14 For, sin, over you, shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under favour.

15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law but under favour? Far be it!

16 Know ye not that, unto whom ye are presenting yourselves as servants for obedience, servants ye are unto whom ye are obedient, whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness?

17 But thanks be unto God, thatwhereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient out of the heart unto the mould of teaching into which ye were delivered;

18 And, being freed from sin, ye were made servants unto righteousness;