¹¹ So you also must consider yourselves ^(A)dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

¹² Let not ^(B)sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. ^13 (C)Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but ^(D)present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. ¹⁴ For ^(E)sin ^(F)will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

¹⁰ He who descended is the one who also ^(A)ascended ^(B)far above all the heavens, that he might ^(C)fill all things.) ¹¹ And ^(D)he gave the ^(E)apostles, the prophets, the ^(F)evangelists, the ^(G)shepherds^[a] and teachers,^{[b] 12 (H)}to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for ^(I)building up ^(J)the body of Christ,