‘Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
‘For sin shall not have dominion over you… .
‘Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?’
(Rom. 6:13, 15–16.)
Peter too emphasizes this bondage:
‘For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
‘While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.’
(2 Pet. 2:18–19.)
(Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, p. 20)