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Believers Are Dead to Sin, Alive to God

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?

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Dead to Sin, Alive to God

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?

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May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

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Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

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Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?

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Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

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Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

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Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

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For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,

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For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,

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knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;

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knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be [a]done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.

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for he who has died is freed from sin.

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For he who has died has been [b]freed from sin.

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Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

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Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

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knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.

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knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.

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For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

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For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

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Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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Likewise you also, [c]reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,

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Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

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and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

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And do not present your members as [d]instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

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For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

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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? May it never be!

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From Slaves of Sin to Slaves of God

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!

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Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?

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Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?

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But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed,

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But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were [e]delivered.

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and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

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And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

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I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.

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I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness [f]for holiness.

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For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

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For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

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Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.

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What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

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But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.

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But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit [g]to holiness, and the end, everlasting 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.

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For the wages of sin is death, but the [h]gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Romans 6

Romans 6