The Latin Vulgate w/ Apocrypha VULA
New International Version NIV
17 gratias autem Deo quod fuistis servi peccati oboedistis autem ex corde in eam formam doctrinae in qua traditi estis
17
But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance.
18 liberati autem a peccato servi facti estis iustitiae
18
You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
19 humanum dico propter infirmitatem carnis vestrae sicut enim exhibuistis membra vestra servire inmunditiae et iniquitati ad iniquitatem ita nunc exhibete membra vestra servire iustitiae in sanctificationem
19
I am using an example from everyday life 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 leading to holiness.
20 cum enim servi essetis peccati liberi fuistis iustitiae
20
When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.
21 quem ergo fructum habuistis tunc in quibus nunc erubescitis nam finis illorum mors est
21
What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!
22 nunc vero liberati a peccato servi autem facti Deo habetis fructum vestrum in sanctificationem finem vero vitam aeternam
22
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.
23 stipendia enim peccati mors gratia autem Dei vita aeterna in Christo Iesu Domino nostro
23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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