Slaves of Righteousness

9  And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, 
10  that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, 
11  being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. —Philippians 1:9 -11

3  For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. 
4  For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. —Romans 10:3 - 4

18  “Therefore hear the parable of the sower:
19  When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside. —Matthew 13:18 - 19

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): 
that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 
For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 
For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” —Romans 10:8 - 11

Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness
is righteous, just as He is righteous. —1 John 3:7

Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 
And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 
For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. —Romans 6:11 - 14

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! 
Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? 
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! 
Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? 
But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. —Romans 6:15 - 17

And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. —Romans 6:18

But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’
then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life. —Exodus 21: 5 - 6