¹⁶ Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey^(A)—whether you are slaves to sin,^(B) which leads to death,^(C) or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?

³⁴ Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.^(A)

⁸ The one who does what is sinful is of the devil,^(A) because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God^(B) appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.^(C)

²⁴ Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh^(A) with its passions and desires.^(B)