Don’t y’all know that when you* present yourselves* as slaves and obey someone, y’all are the slaves of the one whom you* obey, whether of sin that leads to death, or of obedience that leads to righteousness?
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
in which y’all once walked according to the ways of this world and according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then I myself am a slave to the law of God in my mind, but a slave to the law of sin with my flesh.
For truly I tell y’all, until heaven and earth pass away, not even the smallest letter or pen stroke will pass away from the law, until everything is accomplished.