Romans 6:19-21

6:19 (I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) ¹  For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. 6:20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.

6:21 So what benefit ²  did you then reap ³  from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

¹ tn Or “because of your natural limitations” (NRSV).

² tn Grk “fruit.”

³ tn Grk “have,” in a tense emphasizing their customary condition in the past.