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1 What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound?
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What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace?
2 By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it?
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In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
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Or are you without the knowledge that all we who had baptism into Christ Jesus, had baptism into his death?
4 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.
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We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life.
5 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.
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For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again;
6 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.
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Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.
7 For whoever has died is freed from sin.
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Because he who is dead is free from sin.
8 But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
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But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;
9 We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
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Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him.
10 The death he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
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For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God.
11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
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Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.
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For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;
13 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.
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And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.
14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
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For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.
15 What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
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What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.
16 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?
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Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.
17 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,
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But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;
18 and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
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And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.
19 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.
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I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.
20 When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
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When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.
21 So what advantage did you then get from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death.
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What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.
22 But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life.
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But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end 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 reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.
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