^{16 Ref} 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?

^{17 Ref} But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.

^{18 Ref} Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.