Romans 6:16-23

Don't you realize that if you make yourselves someone's slaves, obeying their orders, then you are slaves to the one you obey? If you are slaves of sin, the result is death; if you obey God, the result is you are made right with him. Thank God that though you once were slaves to sin, you whole-heartedly chose to follow the truth about God that you learned. Now that you've been freed from sin, you've become slaves of doing what is morally right. I'm using this everyday example because your human thinking is limited. Just as you once enslaved yourselves to immorality, piling up sin upon sin, now you must enslave yourselves to what is pure and right. When you were slaves to sin you were not required to do what's right. But what were the results back then? Aren't you ashamed of the things you did? Such things that lead to death! But now that you're set free from sin, and have become God's slaves, the results will be a pure life—and in the end, eternal life. The wage sin pays is death, but God's free gift is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.