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14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
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For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!
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What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!
16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?
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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?
17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed,
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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.
18 and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
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You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.
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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.
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
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When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.
21 Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.
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What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!
22 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.
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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.
23 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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For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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