Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
1 What shall we say, then? Should we continue to live in sin so that God's grace will increase?
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What will we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 Certainly not! We have died to sin - how then can we go on living in it?
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May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
3 For surely you know that when we were baptized into union with Christ Jesus, we were baptized into union with his death.
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Or don't you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4 By our baptism, then, we were buried with him and shared his death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from death by the glorious power of the Father, so also we might live a new life.
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We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
5 For since we have become one with him in dying as he did, in the same way we shall be one with him by being raised to life as he was.
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For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
6 And we know that our old being has been put to death with Christ on his cross, in order that the power of the sinful self might be destroyed, so that we should no longer be the slaves of sin.
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knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
7 For when we die, we are set free from the power of sin.
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For he who has died has been freed from sin.
8 Since we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
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But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;
9 For we know that Christ has been raised from death and will never die again - death will no longer rule over him.
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knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!
10 And so, because he died, sin has no power over him; and now he lives his life in fellowship with God.
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For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
11 In the same way you are to think of yourselves as dead, so far as sin is concerned, but living in fellowship with God through Christ Jesus.
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Thus also consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Sin must no longer rule in your mortal bodies, so that you obey the desires of your natural self.
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Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
13 Nor must you surrender any part of yourselves to sin to be used for wicked purposes. Instead, give yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life, and surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes.
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Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
14 Sin must not be your master; for you do not live under law but under God's grace.
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For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
15 What, then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law but under God's grace? By no means!
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What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
16 Surely you know that when you surrender yourselves as slaves to obey someone, you are in fact the slaves of the master you obey - either of sin, which results in death, or of obedience, which results in being put right with God.
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Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
17 But thanks be to God! For though at one time you were slaves to sin, you have obeyed with all your heart the truths found in the teaching you received.
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But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were servants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.
18 You were set free from sin and became the slaves of righteousness.
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Being made free from sin, you became servants of righteousness.
19 (I use everyday language because of the weakness of your natural selves.) At one time you surrendered yourselves entirely as slaves to impurity and wickedness for wicked purposes. In the same way you must now surrender yourselves entirely as slaves of righteousness for holy purposes.
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I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
20 When you were the slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.
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For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
21 What did you gain from doing the things that you are now ashamed of? The result of those things is death!
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What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22 But now you have been set free from sin and are the slaves of God. Your gain is a life fully dedicated to him, and the result is eternal life.
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But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.
23 For sin pays its wage - death; but God's free gift is eternal life in union with 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.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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