12. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires.
13. And do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness.
14. For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under law but under grace.
15. What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!
16. Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey — either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?
17. But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were transferred to,