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Verses nineteen to twenty-two explain the same concept of the previous verses. We will skip to verse twenty-three. Anyone, who has been to a church, is familiar with this verse. Each of the two masters has its own currency. Sin’s currency is eternal death. Christ’s currency is eternal life. Eternal life is a free gift given by God out of love. It would be foolish, if someone who received a gift out of love, offers to pay for it. A more appropriate response to a loved one who offers a gift is gratitude. We must always remember that our salvation is a gift, not something we have earned. God saved us because of his mercy, not because of our own “righteousness”. Glory and praises are given to one who decided to give his sinful and rebellious people a second chance to be reconciled to him.

Romans 6:19-23
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 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. 21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! 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 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in[a] Christ Jesus our Lord.