Rom 6:16, 1Cor 5:6, 15:33, 2Ti 2:16-17, Heb 12:15 | ESV | STEP | Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves , you are slaves of the one whom you obey , either of sin , which leads to death , or of obedience , which leads to righteousness ?

Romans 6:16

16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves ^ato 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?

1 Corinthians 5:6

6 ^cYour boasting is not good. Do you not know that ^da little leaven leavens the whole lump?

1 Corinthians 15:33

33 ^eDo not be deceived: ^f“Bad company ruins good morals.” ^{▼▼Probably from Menander’s comedy Thais}

2 Timothy 2:16-17

16 But ^havoid ⁱirreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, 17 and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are ^jHymenaeus and Philetus,

Hebrews 12:15

15 See to it that no one ^kfails to obtain the grace of God; that no ^l“root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;