^{12 Ref} Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;

^{13 Ref} neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;

^{14 Ref} for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace.

^{15 Ref} What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!

^{16 Ref} have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

^{17 Ref} and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and -- were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up;

^{18 Ref} and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.

^{19 Ref} In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness -- to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness -- to sanctification,

^{12 Ref} For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;

^{13 Ref} And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.

^{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.

^{19 Ref} I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.