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12 So then, don't let sin rule your body, so that you do what it wants.
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Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.
13 Don't offer parts of your body to sin, to be used as weapons to do wrong. Instead, present yourselves to God as people who have been brought back to life from the dead, and offer all the parts of your body to God to be used as weapons to do right.
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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 Sin will have no power over you, because you aren't under 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 So what? Should we sin because we aren't under Law but under grace? Absolutely not!
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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 if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, that you are slaves of the one whom you obey? That's true whether you serve as slaves of sin, which leads to death, or as slaves of the kind of obedience that 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 thank God that although you used to be slaves of sin, you gave wholehearted obedience to the teaching that was handed down to you, which provides a pattern.
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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 Now that you have been set free from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness.
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and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
19 (I'm speaking with ordinary metaphors because of your limitations.) Once, you offered the parts of your body to be used as slaves to impurity and to lawless behavior that leads to still more lawless behavior. Now, you should present the parts of your body as slaves to righteousness, which makes your lives holy.
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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 of 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 consequences did you get from doing things that you are now ashamed of? The outcome 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 that you have been set free from sin and become slaves to God, you have the consequence of a holy life, and the outcome 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 The wages that sin pays are death, but God's gift 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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