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16 Do you not know that you are the slaves of whoever you offer your obedience to? If you obey [the desire to] sin, it leads to [spiritual] death; or if you obey [God] it leads to righteousness.
17 Thank God that you people, who were once slaves to [the practice of] sin, became obedient from [your] heart to the pattern of teaching [i.e., the Gospel message] you committed yourself to.
18 And when you were freed from [the practice of] sin, you became slaves to doing what is right.
19 I am using human reasoning because of your human weakness. For just as you once offered the parts of your bodies as slaves to impurity and to wickedness, which led to further wickedness; so now [you should] offer the parts of your body as slaves to do what is right, which leads to holy living.
20 For when you were [once] slaves to [the practice of] sin, you were free from [being controlled by] righteousness.
21 What benefit did you receive at that time from doing the things you are now ashamed of? For the end of such behavior is [spiritual] death.
22 But now, since you have been freed from [the practice of] sin and have become slaves to God, the benefits you receive are a holy life [here] and never ending life in the future.