Romans 6:15-19
New Living Translation
15 Well then, since God’s grace has set us free from the law, does that mean we can go on sinning? Of course not! 16 Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living. 17 Thank God! Once you were slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly obey this teaching we have given you. 18 Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living.
19 Because of the weakness of your human nature, I am using the illustration of slavery to help you understand all this. Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led ever deeper into sin. Now you must give yourselves to be slaves to righteous living so that you will become holy.
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Romans 6:15-19
International Standard Version
15 What, then, does this mean?[a] Should we go on sinning because we are not under Law but under grace? Of course not! 16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thank God that, though you were once slaves of sin, you became obedient from your hearts to that form of teaching with which you were entrusted! 18 And since you have been freed from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness.
19 I am speaking in simple[b] terms because of the frailty of your human nature.[c] Just as you once offered the parts of your body[d] as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater disobedience, so now, in the same way, you must offer the parts of your body[e] as slaves to righteousness that leads to sanctification.
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- Romans 6:15 The Gk. lacks does this mean
- Romans 6:19 Lit. human
- Romans 6:19 Lit. your flesh
- Romans 6:19 Lit. your members
- Romans 6:19 Lit. your members
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