Romans 6:14-18

14For sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under law but under grace.

15What then? should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Far be the thought.

16Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to him whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

17But thanks [be] to 1God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which ye were instructed.

18Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become bondmen to righteousness.