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15 Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under the authority of Law, but under grace? No, indeed!
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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 if you surrender yourselves as bondservants to obey any one, you become the bondservants of him whom you obey, whether the bondservants of Sin (with death as the result) or of Duty (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 once in thraldom to Sin, you have now yielded a hearty obedience to that system of truth in which you have been instructed.
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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 You were set free from the tyranny of Sin, and became the bondservants of Righteousness--
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You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
19 your human infirmity leads me to employ these familiar figures--and just as you once surrendered your faculties into bondage to Impurity and ever-increasing disregard of Law, so you must now surrender them into bondage to Righteousness ever advancing towards perfect holiness.
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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 the bondservants of sin, you were under no sort of subjection to Righteousness.
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When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.
21 At that time, then, what benefit did you get from conduct which you now regard with shame? Why, such things finally result in 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 that you have been set free from the tyranny of Sin, and have become the bondservants of God, you have your reward in being made holy, and you have the Life of the Ages as the final result.
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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 paid by Sin are death; but God's free gift is the Life of the Ages bestowed upon us 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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