13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but ^rpresent yourselves to God as those who have been brought ^sfrom death to life, and your members to God as instruments ^tfor righteousness.

16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves,¹ you are slaves of the one whom you obey, ^weither of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

18 and, having been set ^yfree from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.

19 I am speaking ^zin human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to ^asanctification.

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