15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Of course not!ⁿ 16Do you not know that if you present yourselves to someone as obedient slaves,^o you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?^p 17But thanks be to God that, although you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient from the heart to the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted.^* 18Freed from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness. 19I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your nature. For just as you presented the parts of your bodies as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness for sanctification. 20^q For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.^* 21But what profit did you get then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.^r 22But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit that you have leads to sanctification,^* and its end is eternal life.^s 23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.^t