Romans 6:1
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Dead to Sin, Alive to God
6 What shall we say then? (A)Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
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1 Peter 2:16
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16 (A)Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but (B)living as servants[a] of God.
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- 1 Peter 2:16 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface
Galatians 5:13
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13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. (A)Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love (B)serve one another.
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Romans 6:15
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Slaves to Righteousness
15 What then? (A)Are we to sin (B)because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
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Romans 3:5-8
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5 But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict (A)wrath on us? ((B)I speak in a human way.) 6 By no means! For then how could (C)God judge the world? 7 But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, (D)why am I still being condemned as a sinner? 8 And why not (E)do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
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Romans 2:4
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4 Or do you presume on (A)the riches of his kindness and (B)forbearance and (C)patience, (D)not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
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Romans 5:20-21
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20 Now (A)the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, (B)grace abounded all the more, 21 so that, (C)as sin reigned in death, (D)grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Romans 3:31
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31 Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
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2 Peter 2:18-19
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18 For, (A)speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely (B)escaping from those who live in error. 19 They promise them (C)freedom, (D)but they themselves are slaves[a] of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.
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- 2 Peter 2:19 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface
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