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?
Know ye not - Does not everyone know that dictate of common sense (John 8:34),
That to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey ('unto obedience'), his servants ye are to whom ye obey - to whom ye yield that obedience,
Whether of SIN unto death - that is, 'issuing in death' (in the awful sense explained on Romans 5:12-21, Remark 3, at the close of that section),
Or of OBEDIENCE unto righteousness - that is, resulting in a righteous character as the enduring and eternal condition of the servant of new Obedience (see 1 John 2:27; John 8:34; 2 Peter 2:19; Matthew 6:24).