Romans 6:17-19 But God be thanked that you who were once the slaves of sin have obeyed from your hearts that type of teaching to which you were appointed;

MNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁷ But God be thanked that you who were once the slaves of sin have obeyed from your hearts that type of teaching to which you were appointed; ¹⁸ and being set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness— ¹⁹ I speak in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature—just as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness.