³⁴ Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

¹⁹ promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by the same is he also brought into bondage.

¹⁶ Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

³ For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

²² The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

⁸ He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

⁹ Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

¹⁰ In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.

¹⁹ I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

²⁰ For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

¹² Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

⁶ knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

² in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

²¹ that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

²⁵ I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.

¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

²³ For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity."

³ Jesus answered him, "Most assuredly, I tell you, unless one is born anew,{The word translated "anew" here and in John 3:7 (anothen) also means "again" and "from above".} he can't see the Kingdom of God."

²⁵ (But there was none like Ahab, who did sell himself to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

¹⁸ For most assuredly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter{literally, iota} or one tiny pen stroke{or, serif} shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.