17But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;
18And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.
19I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.
20When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.
21What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.
22But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.
23For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.
