Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
12 Do not let wrong things rule over your bodies that are going to die. Do not do the things your bodies want.
13 Do not use your bodies to do wrong things. But give yourselves to God like men who have been raised from death to life. Give your bodies to God and use them to do good things.
14 Wrong ways will not be your masters. The law does not rule over you now, but God's loving kindness rules over you.
15 What then? The law does not rule over us now. God's loving kindness rules over us. So, shall we do wrong things? No, never!
16 If you give yourselves to be slaves and obey your master, you are not free. You are his slaves. Do you not know this: you may be slaves to wrong things? But you will not live for ever. Or you may be slaves to obey God. Then you will be made good people and live with him.
17 You were at one time slaves to wrong things. But I praise God that you obeyed what your teachers taught you. And you obeyed because you wanted to obey.
18 You were made free from doing wrong things. You were made slaves to good things.
19 I speak the way people would think about such things, because your minds are weak. At one time you gave your bodies to be slaves to your unclean ways, and to do more and more wrong things. So now give your bodies to be slaves to doing what is right, and to being good.
20 When you were slaves to wrong things, you were free from doing good things.
21 You are now ashamed of those things. What good did they do you? For the end of those things is death.
22 But now you have been made free from wrong ways and you have been made God's slaves. You are made good and you will live for ever.
23 The reward that wrong ways give is to die. But the gift which God gives is to live for ever. Christ Jesus our Lord has done this for us.
40 `Anyone who takes you in, takes me in. And anyone who takes me in, takes in the one who sent me.
41 Anyone who takes in a prophet because he is a prophet of God will get a prophet's reward.
42 And if any one as a disciple gives a drink of cold water to one of my children, he will not lose his reward. I tell you the truth.'
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