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

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?

¹⁷ 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.

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