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6 ¶ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
2 No, in no wise. How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein?
3 Know ye not that all of us that are baptized into Jesus the Christ are baptized into his death?
4 For we are buried with him by baptism into death, that just as the Christ was raised up from the dead to the glory of the Father, likewise we also walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection,
6 knowing this: that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that we should not serve sin any longer.
7 For he that is dead is justified from sin.
8 Now if we die with the Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,
9 knowing that the Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more; death has no more dominion over him.
10 For he that is dead died unto sin once, and he that lives, lives unto God.
11 Likewise also reckon yourselves to be truly dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ, Jesus, our Lord.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Neither present your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but present yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14 So that sin shall have no dominion over you; for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? No, in no wise.
16 Or know ye not that to whom ye present yourselves slaves to obey, his slaves ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death or of the obedience unto righteousness?
17 Thank God that, although ye were the slaves of sin, ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine unto which ye are delivered;
18 and freed from sin, ye are become the slaves of righteousness.
19 I speak a human thing because of the weakness of our flesh: that as ye presented your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity unto iniquity, likewise now present your members to serve righteousness unto holiness.
20 For being previously the slaves of sin, now ye have been made the slaves of righteousness.
21 What fruit had ye then in those things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
22 But now freed from sin and made slaves to God, ye have as your fruit sanctification and as the end, everlasting life.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the grace of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
7 ¶ Know ye not, brethren (for I speak to those that know the law), that the law has dominion over a man only as long as he lives?
2 For the woman who is subject to a husband is obligated to the law so long as the husband lives; but if the husband dies, she is free from the law of the husband.
3 So then if, while her husband lives, she belongs to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law so that she is no adulteress if she belongs to another man.
4 Likewise ye also, my brethren, are become dead to the law in the body of the Christ that ye should belong to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
5 For while we were in the flesh, the affections of the sins which were by the law worked in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
6 But now we are free from the law of death in which we were held, that we might serve in newness of Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
7 ¶ What shall we say then? Is the law sin? No, in no wise. But, I did not know sin except by the law; for neither would I have known lust if the law did not say, Thou shalt not covet.
8 Then sin, when there was occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of lust. For without the law sin was as if it were dormant.
9 So that without the law I lived for some time; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And I found that the same commandment, which was unto life, was mortal unto me.
11 For sin, having had occasion, deceived me by the commandment and by it killed me.
12 So the law is truly holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? No, in no wise. But sin, to show itself sin by that which is good, worked death in me, making sin exceedingly sinful by the commandment.
14 ¶ For we now know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold unto subjection by sin.
15 For that which I do, I do not understand, and not even the good that I desire is what I do; but what I hate, that is what I do.
16 If then I do that which I do not desire, I approve that the law is good.
17 So that it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.
18 And I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing; for I have the desire, but I am not able to perform that which is good.
19 For I do not do the good that I desire; but the evil which I do not desire, that I do.
20 And if I do that which I do not desire, I am not working, but sin that dwells in me.
21 So that, desiring to do good, I find this law: evil is natural unto me.
22 For I delight with the law of God with the inward man,
23 but I see another law in my members which rebels against the law of my mind, bringing captive unto the law of sin which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 The grace of God, by Jesus, the Christ, our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
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