²⁰ When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.

¹⁶ 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 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;

³⁴ And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin.