(16)Do ye not know, that to whomsoever ye present yourselves servants to obey, ye are his servants to whom ye obey; if of sin unto death, or of obedience, unto righteousness? (17)But thanks be to God, that though ye were the servants of sin, ye have obeyed from the heart the model of doctrine into which ye were delivered. (18)Emancipated then from sin, ye became servants to righteousness. (19)I speak humanly, because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have presented your members servants to impurity and iniquity for iniquity; so now present your members servants to righteousness for holiness. (20)For when ye were the slaves of sin, ye were free from righteousness. (21)What fruit therefore had ye then in those things at which ye are now confounded? for the end of those things is death. (22)But now being set at liberty from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and at the end life eternal. (23)For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is life eternal in Jesus Christ our Lord. CHAP. VII. ARE you unacquainted, brethren, (for I am speaking to those who know the law,) that the law exercises dominion over a person for as long time as he liveth? (2)For the woman who is subject to a husband, is bound by the law to that husband during his life; but if the husband be dead, she is discharged from that husband. (3)She shall therefore certainly be counted an adulteress, if, her husband being alive, she be for another man: but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law; so that she shall be no adulteress, though married to another husband. (4)Wherefore, my brethren, ye also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye might be for another, who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit for God. (5)For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions excited by the law, wrought powerfully in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death. (6)But now we have been discharged from the law, that being dead by which we were held fast; that we should serve in renovation of spirit, and not in the antiquity of the letter. (7)What then shall we say? Is the law sin? God forbid. Yea, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not even known concupiscence, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. (8)But sin, seizing the opportunity by the law, wrought in me all concupiscence. For without the law sin is dead. (9)For though I lived without the law formerly; yet when the commandment came, sin revived, but I died. (10)And the commandment, which _was_ for life, the same was found by me for death. (11)For sin, seizing the occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and thereby slew me. (12)So then the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.