15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means.16Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, whether of sin resulting in death or of obedience resulting in righteousness?17But thanks be to God that you who were slaves of sin obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching to which you were committed.18And having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.19I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.20For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.21What fruit then did you have at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.22But now having been set free from sin and having become enslaved to God, you have your fruit leading to holiness, and the end is eternal life.23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.