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12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.
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Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.
13 Do 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.
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No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.
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For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!
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What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
16 Don’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?
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Do 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 But 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.
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But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted,
18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
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and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
19 I 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.
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I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.
20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.
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When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!
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So what advantage did you then get from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death.
22 But 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.
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But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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