Rom 6:16-17 | 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 6:16-17

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? 17 But ^cthanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the ^dstandard of teaching to which you were committed,