servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? 006:017 But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered. 006:018 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness. 006:019 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification. 006:020 For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 006:021 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 006:022 But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life. 006:023 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 007:001 Or don't you know, brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? 007:002 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband. 007:003 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man. 007:004 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God. 007:005 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death. 007:006 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter. 007:007 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."{Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21} 007:008 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead. 007:009 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came,