Romans 6:19-23
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your nature. For just as you presented the parts of your bodies as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness for sanctification. 20 (A)For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.[a] 21 But what profit did you get then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.(B) 22 But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit that you have leads to sanctification,[b] and its end is eternal life.(C) 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.(D)
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- 6:20 You were free from righteousness: expressed ironically, for such freedom is really tyranny. The commercial metaphors in Rom 6:21–23 add up only one way: sin is a bad bargain.
- 6:22 Sanctification: or holiness.
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