^{14 Ref} For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.

^{15 Ref} What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.

^{16 Ref} Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.

^{17 Ref} But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;

^{18 Ref} And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.