Romans 6:15-23
Slaves
to Righteousness
15 “What then? Shall we sin because we
are not under the law but under GRACE? By no means!
16 Don’t you know that when you offer
yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you
obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to
obedience, which leads to RIGHTEOUSNESS?
17 But thanks be to GOD that, though
you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the
pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance.
18 You have been set free from
sin and have become slaves to RIGHTEOUSNESS .
19 I am using an example from
everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer
yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer
yourselves as slaves to RIGHTEOUSNESS leading
to HOLINESS.
20 When you were slaves to
sin, you were free from the control of RIGHTEOUSNESS.
21 What benefit did you reap at that
time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!
22 But now that you have been set
free from sin and have become slaves of GOD, the benefit you reap leads to HOLINESS and the
result is ETERNAL LIFE.
23 For the wages of sin is
death, but THE GIFT
OF GOD is ETERNAL
LIFE in
CHRIST JESUS OUR
LORD. “
