JMNT(i)
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).
19 I am speaking humanly because of the weakness or sickness of your flesh (or: = your human condition; or: = the self that had been distorted by the System):
for even as you folks presented (placed and provided alongside)
your members [
as; being]
slaves by (for; in; to)
the Uncleanness and by (for; in; to)
the Lawlessness, [
leading]
into that Lawlessness, in this manner (or: thus)
now you folks must place (provide and present)
your members alongside [
as]
slaves of the Way pointed out (slaves of rightwised relationship in fair and equitable dealings; slaves of justice and righteousness) [
leading]
into the quality and sphere of being set-apart (or: into a holy consecration and a state of being sacredly different).
20 For when you folks were existing being slaves of the Sin (slaves from failure; slaves of deviation from the goal),
you were existing [
as it were]
being free [
as; with regard]
to the Way pointed out (= being not owned by rightwised relationships, fairness, equity and justice).
21 What fruit, then, were you having (did you used to hold or possess)
at that time, upon which [
situation or condition]
you folks now continue to be ashamed and embarrassed? For, indeed, the outcome (the end; the goal; the fruition; the consummation; the destiny)
of those things [
is]
death.
22 But now being folks set free from the Sin (from failure; from error; from missing the target; from deviation)
yet being enslaved by (to; in; for)
God, you folks continue having (habitually hold and possess)
your fruit unto the quality and sphere of being set-apart (into a sacred difference).
Now the outcome (goal, end and destiny) [
of this is]
life which belongs to, is proper to, pertains to and is connected to the Age (eonian life; Life of and for the ages).