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16 Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves slaves unto obedience, you are slaves! whom you obey! either of sins—unto death—or obedience—unto righteousness?
17 But gratitude be to the God, because you were slaves of the sin, yet you obeyed from heart unto that to which you were delivered—that form of teaching.
18 Then, having been liberated from the sin, you were enslaved to the righteousness.
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