15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

16 Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?

17 But thanks be to God, that you were the servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of instruction which was delivered to you.