12 Let not sin, therefore, reign in your mortal body, by obeying it.

13 Neither present your members as instruments of unrighteousness, to sin; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead; and your members as instruments of righteousness, to God.

14 Besides, sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under law, but under favor.

15 What then do we say? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under favor?

16 Do you not know, that to whom you present yourselves servants, by obedience; his servants you are whom you thus obey; whether of sin into death, or of obedience into righteousness?

17 But, thanks to God, that though you were the servants of sin; yet you have heartily obeyed that model of doctrine to which you have been given up.

18 And being made free from sin, you have become the servants of righteousness.