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1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
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What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound?
2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
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By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it?
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
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Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
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Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
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For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
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We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
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For whoever has died is freed from sin.
8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
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But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
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We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
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The death he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
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Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.
13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
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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 not have dominion over you: for ye 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? God forbid.
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What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto 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 God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
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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 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
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and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto 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 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
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When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is 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 being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting 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 through Jesus Christ 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.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.