Romans 6:16-22

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16 Do you not ^aknow that when you go on presenting yourselves to someone as ^bslaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of ^csin ¹leading to death, or of obedience ²leading to righteousness? 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. 22 But now having been ^afreed from sin and ^benslaved to God, you have your ¹^cbenefit, ²leading to sanctification, and ^dthe end, eternal life.