 When we decide to give ourselves to the Lord and be born again, we give up that old sinful life and start a new one, this time living for the Lord. That's what Paul talks about in Romans 6. In describing this process, he says, Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey? Whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness.