³⁴ Jesus responded, “I assure you: Everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.^(A)

¹⁶ Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone^[a] as obedient slaves,^(A) you are slaves of that one you obey^(B)—either of sin leading to death^(C) or of obedience leading to righteousness?

⁵ For when we were in the flesh,^[a](A) the sinful passions operated through the law in every part of us^[b](B) and bore fruit for death.