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What are we to say, then? Shall we persist in sin, so that there may be all the more grace? | Dead to Sin but Alive in Christ Ro.6.1-14 |
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No, no! We died to sin: how can we live in it any longer? | |
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Have you forgotten that when we were baptized into union with Christ Jesus we were baptized into his death? | |
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By baptism we were buried with him, and lay dead, in order that, as Christ was raised from the dead in-the splendour of the Father, so also we might set our feet upon the new path of life.
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For if we have become incorporate with him in a death like his, we shall also be one with him in a resurrection like his. | |
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We know that the man we once were has been crucified with Christ, for the destruction of the sinful self, so that we may no longer be the slaves of sin, | |
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since a dead man is no longer answerable for his sin. | |
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But if we thus died with Christ, we believe that we shall also come to life with him. | |
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We know that Christ, once raised from the dead, is never to die again: he is no longer under the dominion of death. | |
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For in dying as he died, he died to sin, once for all, and in living as he lives, he lives to God. | |
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In the same way you must regard yourselves as dead to sin and alive to God, in union with Christ Jesus.
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So sin must no longer reign in your mortal body, exacting obedience to the body's desires. | |
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You must no longer put its several parts at sin's disposal, as implements for doing wrong. No: put yourselves at the disposal of God, as dead men raised to life; yield your bodies to him as implements for doing right; | |
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for sin shall no longer be your master, because you are no longer under law, but under the grace of God.
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What then? Are we to sin, because we are not under law but under grace? Of course not. | Slaves of Righteousness Ro.6.15-23 |
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You know well enough that if you put yourselves at the disposal of a master, to obey him, you are slaves of the master whom you obey; and this is true whether you serve sin, with death as its result; or obedience, with righteousness as its result. | |
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But God be thanked, you, who once were slaves of sin, have yielded wholehearted obedience to the pattern of teaching to which you were made subject, | |
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and, emancipated from sin, is have become slaves of righteousness | |
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(to use words that suit your human weakness) - I mean, as you once yielded your bodies to the service of impurity and lawlessness, making for moral anarchy, so now you must yield them to the service of righteousness, making for a holy life.
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When you were slaves of sin, you were free from the control of righteousness; | |
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and what was the gain? Nothing but what now makes you ashamed, for the end of that is death. | |
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But now, freed from the commands of sin, and bound to the service of God, your gains are such as make for holiness, and the end is eternal life. | |
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For sin pays a wage, and the wage is death, but God gives freely, and his gift is eternal life, in union with Christ Jesus our Lord.
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