16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, [AO] you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? [AP]

17 But thanks be to God that, although you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient from the heart to the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted. [3]

18 Freed from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness.