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So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth:[a] sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion,[b] evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

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  1. Colossians 3:5 tn Grk “the members which are on the earth.” See BDAG 628 s.v. μέλος 1, “put to death whatever in you is worldly.”
  2. Colossians 3:5 tn Or “lust.”

11 So you too consider yourselves[a] dead to sin, but[b] alive to God in Christ Jesus.

12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires, 13 and do not present your members to sin as instruments[c] to be used for unrighteousness,[d] but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments[e] to be used for righteousness. 14 For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

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  1. Romans 6:11 tc ‡ Some Alexandrian and Byzantine mss (P94vid א* B C 81 365 1506 1739 1881) have the infinitive “to be” (εἶναι, einai) following “yourselves”. The infinitive is lacking from some mss of the Alexandrian and Western textual clusters (P46vid A D*,c F G 33). The infinitive is found elsewhere in the majority of Byzantine mss, suggesting a scribal tendency toward clarification. The lack of infinitive best explains the rise of the other readings. The meaning of the passage is not significantly altered by inclusion or omission, but on internal grounds omission is more likely. NA28 includes the infinitive in brackets, indicating doubt as to its authenticity.
  2. Romans 6:11 tn Greek emphasizes the contrast between these two clauses more than can be easily expressed in English.
  3. Romans 6:13 tn Or “weapons, tools.”
  4. Romans 6:13 tn Or “wickedness, injustice.”
  5. Romans 6:13 tn Or “weapons, tools.”

13 (for if you live according to the flesh, you will[a] die),[b] but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

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  1. Romans 8:13 tn Grk “are about to, are certainly going to.”
  2. Romans 8:13 sn This remark is parenthetical to Paul’s argument.