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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin-- |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7because anyone who has died has been set free from sin. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The 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] | 11In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey--whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in 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 benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
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