17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’(A)

“Cursed(B) is the ground(C) because of you;
    through painful toil(D) you will eat food from it
    all the days of your life.(E)
18 It will produce thorns and thistles(F) for you,
    and you will eat the plants of the field.(G)
19 By the sweat of your brow(H)
    you will eat your food(I)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”(J)

20 Adam[a] named his wife Eve,[b](K) because she would become the mother of all the living.

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  1. Genesis 3:20 Or The man
  2. Genesis 3:20 Eve probably means living.

We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death(A) in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead(B) through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.(C)

For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.(D) For we know that our old self(E) was crucified with him(F) so that the body ruled by sin(G) might be done away with,[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin(H) because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.(I)

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.(J) For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead,(K) he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.(L) 10 The death he died, he died to sin(M) once for all;(N) but the life he lives, he lives to God.

11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin(O) but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign(P) in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness,(Q) but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.(R) 14 For sin shall no longer be your master,(S) because you are not under the law,(T) but under grace.(U)

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  1. Romans 6:6 Or be rendered powerless

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