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Believers Are Dead to Sin, Alive to God
1 AWhat shall we say then? Are we to
Bcontinue in sin so that grace may increase?
2 AMay it never be! How shall we who
Bdied to sin still live in it?
3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been
Abaptized into
BChrist Jesus have been baptized into His death?
4 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.
5 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,
6 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;
7 for
Ahe who has died is
1freed from sin.
8 Now
Aif we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
9 knowing that Christ, having been
Araised from the dead,
1is never to die again;
Bdeath no longer is master over Him.
10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
11 Even so consider yourselves to be
Adead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore do not let sin
Areign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,
13 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.
14 For
Asin shall not
Bbe master over you, for
Cyou are not under law but
Dunder grace.
15 What then?
AShall we sin because we are not under law but under grace?
BMay it never be!
16 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?
17 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,
18 and having been
Afreed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
19 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.
20 For
Awhen you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
21 Therefore what
1Abenefit were you then
2deriving
3from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is
Bdeath.
22 But now having been
Afreed from sin and
Benslaved to God, you
1derive your
2Cbenefit,
3resulting in sanctification, and
Dthe outcome, eternal life.
23 For the wages of
Asin is death, but the free gift of God is
Beternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.