JMNT(i)
14 for your sin (your failure; your missing of the target)
will not continue exercising mastery (or: You see, deviation from the goal shall not exert ownership and rule as your lord),
for you folks are not under Law (or: do not exist being subject to [Torah] or custom),
but rather under Grace (or: the Act which produced happiness, which was granted as a favor).
15 What, then? Should we (May we; Can we)
occasionally sin (miss the target; fail),
because we are not under law (subject to [Torah] or custom),
but rather under grace (the act yielding happiness, granting joyous favor)?
Certainly not (May it not come to be or happen)!
16 Have you not seen and thus know (Are you not aware)
that to whom (for whom; or: in what)
you habitually place yourselves alongside, presenting and providing yourselves as slaves into submissive, obedient hearing, you folks are, and continue being, [
his or its]
slaves –
to whom (in what; for which)
you habitually submit in obedient hearing – whether of failure (of sin; of missing the target)
into death, or of submissive, hearing obedience into fair and equitable dealings of rightwised relationship in the Way pointed out ([covenant] justice).
17 But Grace by God (or: Now [this is] happiness granted as favor in God):
that you folks were existing, continuing to be slaves of the Sin (slaves of failure; slaves belonging to the missing the target),
yet now you submissively hear and pay attention, so as to obey – from out of heart! – [
the]
type of instruction (or: chiseled and imprinted pattern of teaching)
into which you are (or: at one point were)
given over (handed over and entrusted; given alongside).
18 Now, being set free (or: liberated)
from the Sin (failure; error),
you folks are (or: were suddenly)
enslaved (made slaves)
to justice (= to covenant participation in solidarity) (or: in the Way pointed out; for fair and equitable dealings; by the Well-ordered, Righteous Existence [in Christ]; to rightwised relationship and [covenantal] behavior).