³ I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.

⁵ I tell you, no! But unless you repent,^(A) you too will all perish.”

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?

¹⁹ I am using an example from everyday life^(A) because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness^(B) leading to holiness.

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