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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7For one who has died has been set free from sin. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
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