Rom 6:12-18

Do not allow sin any control over your mortal bodies; do not submit yourselves to its evil inclinations, and do not give any parts of your body over to sin as instruments to do evil. On the contrary, offer yourselves to God as people who have been brought from death to life, and let the members of your body be as instruments of uprightness. Sin will not control you again, for you are not under the Law, but under grace. What shall we say then? Are we to sin because we are not under the Law, but under grace? Certainly not. If you have given yourselves up to someone as his slave, you are slaves of the master whom you obey. Now that master may be either sin that leads to death or obedience that leads you to righteousness…………………