Romans 6:16

“If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is lying at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”

Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.

and do not go on presenting your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

Therefore what benefit were you then having from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

For the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?

Therefore I exhort you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice—living, holy, and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

Do you not know that you are a sanctuary of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not worthy to constitute the smallest law courts?

Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more matters of this life?

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,

Do you not know that those who perform sacred services eat the food of the temple, and those who attend regularly to the altar have their share from the altar?

promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved.