Romans 6:17-22 but God be thanked, that you, who were the vassals of sin, have sincerely obeyed in the manner the gospel prescribed.

Mace⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁷ but God be thanked, that you, who were the vassals of sin, have sincerely obeyed in the manner the gospel prescribed. ¹⁸ being then set free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. ¹⁹ (I allude to civil affairs, because of your unacquaintedness with spiritual matters:) as then you made your natural faculties subservient to impurity, and all manner of vice; make them now subservient to virtue and holiness. ²⁰ for when ye were the vassals of sin, ye were not in the service of virtue. ²¹ what benefit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? since they terminated all in death. ²² but now being set free from sin, and actually in the service of God, the present advantage you reap is holiness, and the future everlasting life.