Relentless Judgment on Israel

Dead to Sin, Alive to God

6 What shall we say then? ^(A)Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? ² Certainly not! How shall we who ^(B)died to sin live any longer in it? ³ Or do you not know that ^(C)as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus ^(D)were baptized into His death? ⁴ Therefore we were ^(E)buried with Him through baptism into death, that ^(F)just as Christ was raised from the dead by ^(G)the glory of the Father, ^(H)even so we also should walk in newness of life.

^5 (I)For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, ⁶ knowing this, that ^(J)our old man was crucified with Him, that ^(K)the body of sin might be ^[a]done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. ⁷ For ^(L)he who has died has been ^[b]freed from sin. ⁸ Now ^(M)if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, ⁹ knowing that ^(N)Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. ¹⁰ For the death that He died, ^(O)He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, ^(P)He lives to God. ¹¹ Likewise you also, ^[c]reckon yourselves to be ^(Q)dead indeed to sin, but ^(R)alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

^12 (S)Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. ¹³ And do not present your ^(T)members as ^[d]instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but ^(U)present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. ¹⁴ For ^(V)sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

³ For ^(A)what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, ^(B)God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, ⁴ that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who ^(C)do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. ⁵ For ^(D)those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, ^(E)the things of the Spirit. ⁶ For ^(F)to be ^[a]carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. ⁷ Because ^(G)the ^[b]carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, ^(H)nor indeed can be. ⁸ So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

³ For ^(A)what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, ^(B)God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, ⁴ that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who ^(C)do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. ⁵ For ^(D)those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, ^(E)the things of the Spirit. ⁶ For ^(F)to be ^[a]carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. ⁷ Because ^(G)the ^[b]carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, ^(H)nor indeed can be. ⁸ So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.