Romans 6:17-21

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17 But ^athanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that ^bpattern of teaching to which you were ^cgiven over, 18 and having been ^afreed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 19 ^aI am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just ^bas you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, ¹leading to further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, ²leading to sanctification.
20 For ^awhen you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 Therefore what ¹^abenefit were you then having ²from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is ^bdeath.