12 Let not Sin therefore reign as king in your mortal bodies, causing you to be in subjection to their cravings;
13 and no longer lend your faculties as unrighteous weapons for Sin to use. On the contrary surrender your very selves to God as living men who have risen from the dead, and surrender your several faculties to God, to be used as weapons to maintain the right.
14 For Sin shall not be lord over you, since you are subjects not of Law, but of grace.
15 Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under the authority of Law, but under grace? No, indeed!
16 Do you not know that if you surrender yourselves as bondservants to obey any one, you become the bondservants of him whom you obey, whether the bondservants of Sin (with death as the result) or of Duty (resulting in righteousness)?
17 But thanks be to God that though you were once in thraldom to Sin, you have now yielded a hearty obedience to that system of truth in which you have been instructed.
18 You were set free from the tyranny of Sin, and became the bondservants of Righteousness–