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Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ
6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in
sin, that grace may abound?
6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live
any longer therein?
6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into
Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death:
that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory
of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of
life.
6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of
his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his
resurrection:
6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him,
that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we
should not serve sin.
6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall
also live with him:
6:9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no
more; death hath no more dominion over him.
6:10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in
that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed
unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that
ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of
unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as
those that are alive from the dead, and your members as
instruments of righteousness unto God.
6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are
not under the law, but under grace.
Slaves to Righteousness
6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the
law, but under grace? God forbid.
6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants
to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin
unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
6:17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin,
but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine
which was delivered you.
6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants
of righteousness.
6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the
infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members
servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even
so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto
holiness.
6:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free
from righteousness.
6:21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are
now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
6:22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants
to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end
everlasting life.
6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is
eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. |
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