Romans 6:17

Romans 6:17. But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

Or, as the marginal reading renders it, in harmony with the original, "whereto ye were delivered," for the doctrine was the mould, and ye were the metal, reduced to a molten condition, and then poured into the mould to take the shape of gospel truth. God be thanked for this, - that, though ye did formerly serve sin, ye now serve it no longer.