Romans 6:19-23

Rachel Workman: 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^[b] Christ Jesus our Lord.
It's really pretty simple. Sin = death. Christ = life.

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John Burnett:  ¹⁹ I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, ^[a]resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, ^[b]resulting in sanctification.  My flesh is so weak and if it were not for the Holy Spirit showing me my sin and now living in me as my helper to battle sin, I would still be a slave to sin.  It is God’s grace that has put in in the position of being justified, in the process of being sanctified, and in the future being glorified with a new body and living with Him for eternity.

²⁰ For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. ²¹ Therefore what ^[c]benefit were you then ^[d]deriving^[e]from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death. ²² But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you ^[f]derive your ^[g]benefit, ^[h]resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life. ²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Can’t be any more clear than this when it comes to the gift of salvation and eternal life.  It is a free gift that we can’t pay or do anything to obtain.  It also makes it very clear what happens when we live in sin and how we pay for it, death. 

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Monday’s reading for Romans 7:1-6

7 Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? ² For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. ³ So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

⁴ So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. ⁵ For when we were in the realm of the flesh,^[a] the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. ⁶ But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.