Rom 6
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What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
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God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?
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Or are you ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized
into his death?
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We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death: that like as Christ was
raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness
of life.
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For if we have become united with [him] in the likeness of his death, we shall be
also [in the likeness] of his resurrection;
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knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of sin might
be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;
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for he who has died is justified from sin.
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But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;
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knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death no more has dominion
over him.
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For the death that he died, he died to sin once: but the life that he lives, he lives
to God.
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Even so reckon you also yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
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Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey its lusts:
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neither present your members to sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness; but present
yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness
to God.
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For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under law, but under grace.
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What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.
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Know you not, that to whom you present yourselves [as] servants to obedience, his
servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
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But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were servants of sin, you became obedient
from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered;
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and being made free from sin, you became servants of righteousness.
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I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as you
presented your members [as] servants to uncleanness and to iniquity to iniquity, even
so now present your members [as] servants to righteousness to sanctification.
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For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard of righteousness.
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What fruit then had you at that time in the things whereof you are now ashamed? for
the end of those things is death.
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But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, you have your fruit to
sanctification, and the end eternal life.
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For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ
Jesus our Lord.