Romans 6:12
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12 Do not let sin control your puny body any longer; do not give in to its sinful desires.
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Romans 6:16
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16 Don’t you realize that you can choose your own master? You can choose sin (with death) or else obedience (with acquittal). The one to whom you offer yourself—he will take you and be your master, and you will be his slave.
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Romans 7:22-25
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22 I love to do God’s will so far as my new nature is concerned; 23-25 but there is something else deep within me, in my lower nature, that is at war with my mind and wins the fight and makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. In my mind I want to be God’s willing servant, but instead I find myself still enslaved to sin.
So you see how it is: my new life tells me to do right, but the old nature that is still inside me loves to sin. Oh, what a terrible predicament I’m in! Who will free me from my slavery to this deadly lower nature? Thank God! It has been done[a] by Jesus Christ our Lord. He has set me free.
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- Romans 7:23 It has been done, or “It will be done,” literally, “I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Hebrews 2:14
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14 Since we, God’s children, are human beings—made of flesh and blood—he became flesh and blood too by being born in human form; for only as a human being could he die and in dying break the power of the devil who had the power of death.
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Hebrews 2:15
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15 Only in that way could he deliver those who through fear of death have been living all their lives as slaves to constant dread.
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