¹³ Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness,^(A) but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.^(B)

²¹ What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!^(A)

¹⁹ The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality,^(A) impurity and debauchery;

¹⁵ Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin;^(A) and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.^(B)