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We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, so we might no longer be enslaved to sin.(A)

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20 and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God,[a] who loved me and gave himself for me.(A)

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  1. 2.20 Or by faith in the Son of God

22 to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts,(A)

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14 May I never boast of anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which[a] the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.(A)

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  1. 6.14 Or through whom

24 And those who belong to Christ[a] have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.(A)

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  1. 5.24 Other ancient authorities read Christ Jesus

34 Jesus answered them, “Very truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.(A) 35 The slave does not have a permanent place in the household; the son has a place there forever.(B) 36 So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

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

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Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices 10 and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator.(A)

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Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).(A)

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24 Wretched person that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God[a] through Jesus Christ our Lord!

So then, with my mind I am enslaved to the law of God, but with my flesh I am enslaved to the law of sin.

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  1. 7.25 Other ancient authorities read I thank God

11 In him also you were circumcised with a spiritual circumcision,[a] by the removal of the body[b] of the flesh in the circumcision of Christ;(A) 12 when you were buried with him in baptism, you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.(B)

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  1. 2.11 Gk a circumcision made without hands
  2. 2.11 Other ancient authorities add of the sins

22 But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the fruit you have leads to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.(A)

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12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies, so that you obey their desires.(A)

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13 O Lord our God,
    other lords besides you have ruled over us,
    but we acknowledge your name alone.(A)

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For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and to deal with sin,[a] he condemned sin in the flesh,(A) so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.[b](B)

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  1. 8.3 Or and as a sin offering
  2. 8.4 Or spirit

17 Then Naaman said, “If not, please let two mule loads of earth be given to your servant, for your servant will no longer offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any god except the Lord.

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