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Romans 6

Believers Are Dead to Sin, Alive to God

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 aWhat shall we say then? Are we to  bcontinue in sin so that grace may increase?

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 aMay it never be! How shall we who  bdied to sin still live in it?

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Or do you not know that all of us who have been  abaptized into  bChrist Jesus have been baptized into His death?

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Therefore we have been  aburied with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was  braised from the dead through the  cglory of the Father, so we too might walk in  dnewness of life.

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For  aif we have become  1united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be  2in the likeness of His resurrection,

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knowing this, that our  aold  1self was  bcrucified with Him, in order that our  cbody of sin might be  2done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;

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for  ahe who has died is  1freed from sin.

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Now  aif we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

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knowing that Christ, having been  araised from the dead,  1is never to die again;  bdeath no longer is master over Him.

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For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

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Even so consider yourselves to be  adead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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Therefore do not let sin  areign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,

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and do not go on  apresenting  1the members of your body to sin as  2instruments of unrighteousness; but  bpresent yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as  2instruments of righteousness to God.

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For  asin shall not  bbe master over you, for  cyou are not under law but  dunder grace.

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What then?  aShall we sin because we are not under law but under grace?  bMay it never be!

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Do you not  aknow that when you present yourselves to someone as  bslaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of  csin  1resulting in death, or of obedience  2resulting in righteousness?

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But  athanks be to God that  1though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that  bform of teaching to which you were committed,

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and having been  afreed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

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 aI am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just  bas you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness,  1resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness,  2resulting in sanctification.

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For  awhen you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

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Therefore what  1 abenefit were you then  2deriving  3from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is  bdeath.

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But now having been  afreed from sin and  benslaved to God, you  1derive your  2 cbenefit,  3resulting in sanctification, and  dthe outcome, eternal life.

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For the wages of  asin is death, but the free gift of God is  beternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.



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