Readings for Lent and Easter

So Don’t Let Sin Reign In You, But Present Yourselves To God As Alive From The Dead

¹² Therefore do not let sin be reigning in your mortal body so that you are obeying its desires, ¹³ nor be presenting your body-parts to sin as instruments^[a] of unrighteousness. But present yourselves to God as-if ^[b] being alive from the dead, and your body-parts to God as instruments of righteousness. ¹⁴ For sin shall not lord-over you— for you are not under the Law^[c], but under grace.

This Does Not Mean We Should Sin Because We Are Not Under Law, But Under Grace

¹⁵ Therefore, what? Should we sin^[d] because we are not under the Law but under grace? May it never be!

You Were Freed From Slavery To Sin. So Present Yourselves As Slaves of Righteousness

¹⁶ Do you not know that to whom you are presenting yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to whom you are obeying— whether slaves of sin leading-to^[e] death, or slaves of obedience leading-to righteousness? ¹⁷ But thanks be to God that you were slaves of sin, but you obeyed from the heart the form^[f] of teaching to which you were delivered. ¹⁸ And having been set-free from sin, you were enslaved^[g] to righteousness