Romans 6&7

Today I consider myself dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Sin, therefore, does not reign in my mortal body to make me obey its passions. I do not present my members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but instead, today, I present myself to God as one who has been brought from death to life. Sin has no dominion over me! I present my members as slaves to righteousness.

I am set free from sin and have become a slave to God. The fruit from that relationship, that position, leads to sanctification and eternal life.  The free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus, my Lord. I have died to the law through the body of Christ so that I may belong to Jesus, who has been raised from the dead, in order that I bear the fruit of God.  Now I am released from the law, having died to that which held me captive, so that I serve in the new way of the Spirit and not the old way of the written code.