15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under [135]the Law but under grace? [136]Far from it!

16 Do you not know that the one to whom you present yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of that same one whom you obey, either of sin [137]resulting in death, or of obedience [138]resulting in righteousness?

17 But thanks be to God that [139]though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that [140]form of teaching to which you were entrusted,