Rom 6:15-20 | ESV | STEP | What then ? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace ? By no means !

Romans 6:15-20

Slaves to Righteousness

15 What then? ^aAre we to sin ^bbecause we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves ^cto anyone as obedient slaves, ^{▼▼For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface (twice in this verse and verse 19; also once in verses 17, 20)} you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But ^ethanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the ^fstandard of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and, ^ghaving been set free from sin, ^hhave become slaves of righteousness. 19 ⁱI am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For ^jjust as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members ^kas slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

20 ^lFor when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.