Romans 6:12-18

12Therefore do not let sin rule in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.

13And do not keep yielding your body parts to sin as tools of wickedness; but yield yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your body parts as tools of righteousness to God.

14For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!

16Do you not know that to whatever you yield yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to what you obey—whether to sin resulting in death, or to obedience resulting in righteousness?

17But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching under which you were placed;

18and after you were set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.