Romans 6:2
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2 By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it?(A)
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1 John 3:9
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9 Those who have been born of God do not sin because God’s seed abides in them;[a] they cannot sin because they have been born of God.(A)
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- 3.9 Or because the children of God abide in him
Colossians 3:3
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3 for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.(A)
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Romans 7:4
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4 In the same way, my brothers and sisters, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.(A)
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1 Peter 2:24
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24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross,[a] so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds[b] you have been healed.(A)
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Galatians 2:19
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19 For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ,(A)
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Romans 7:6
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6 But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we are enslaved in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the written code.(A)
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1 Peter 1:14
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14 Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.
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1 Peter 4:1-3
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Good Stewards of God’s Grace
4 Since, therefore, Christ suffered in the flesh,[a] arm yourselves also with the same intention (for whoever has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin),(A) 2 so as to live for the rest of your time in the flesh no longer by human desires but by the will of God.(B) 3 You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.(C)
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- 4.1 Other ancient authorities add for us or for you
Colossians 2:20
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Warnings against False Teachers
20 If with Christ you died to the elemental principles[a] of the world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations,(A)
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- 2.20 Or spirits
2 Corinthians 5:14-17
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14 For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore all have died.(A) 15 And he died for all, so that those who live might live no longer for themselves but for the one who for their sake died and was raised.
16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view;[a] even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view,[b] we no longer know him in that way.(B) 17 So if anyone is in Christ, there[c] is a new creation: everything old has passed away; look, new things have come into being![d](C)
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Galatians 6:14
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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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- 6.14 Or through whom
Psalm 119:104
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104 Through your precepts I get understanding;
therefore I hate every false way.(A)
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