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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Romans 6
¹⁸ and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
¹⁹ I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.
²⁰ For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
²¹ Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.
²² But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.
²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 7
¹ Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives?
² For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.
³ So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man.
⁴ Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.
⁵ For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.