What then shall we say? Are we to remain in sin that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We who died to sin, how can we still live in it? 3 Or do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus into his death were baptized? 4 We were buried-together therefore with him through the baptism into the death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.
5 For if grown-together we have become with/in the likeness of his death, certainly of the resurrection we shall be; 6 realizing this, that our old man was crucified-together so that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we might no longer be enslaved to sin. 7 For he who died is acquitted from sin. 8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live-together with him, 9 knowing that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10 For in that he died, to sin he died, once for all; but in that he lives, he lives to God. 11 So you also consider yourselves to be dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Let not sin, therefore, reign in your mortal body so as to obey its desires, 13 and do not lend your members as weapons of unrighteousness to sin, but lend yourselves to God as living from the dead and your members as weapons of righteousness to God, 14 for sin will not exercise-lordship over you; for you are not under the Law but under grace.
15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under the Law but under grace? By no means! 16 Do you not know that to whom you lend yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to the one whom you obey, whether of sin to death or of obedience to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that though you were once slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and having been set-free from sin you were enslaved to righteousness. 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you lent your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now lend your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness. 21 What fruit therefore did you have then? Things for which you are now ashamed. For the end of those things is death. 22 But now, having been set free from sin, and having been enslaved to righteousness, you have your fruit for sanctification, and the end life of the age. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the charisma of God is life of the age in Christ Jesus our Lord. our Lord.
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