Romans 6:18-21
18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Because we in Christ are freed from sin and its rule in us, in a sense we are now serving righteousness - but as willing bondservants instead of forced labor. This is why we choose daily to use our minds and bodies as God has commanded us, willingly and gladly obeying from the heart. We no longer aim to add more to the downward spiral of sin as Israel in the times of the judges, but instead we add to right words and deeds as we aim to holiness in an upward spiral on a staircase towards heaven. We are free not to sin towards death, but to do right for life as we have been called out for.
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