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Chapter 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. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live
any longer therein? |
3
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Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into
Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? |
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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. |
5
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For if we have been planted together in the likeness
of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his
resurrection: |
6
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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. |
7
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For he that is dead is freed from sin. |
8
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Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall
also live with him: |
9
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Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth
no more; death hath no more dominion over him. |
10
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For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in
that he liveth, he liveth unto God. |
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Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed
unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our
Lord. |
12
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Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that
ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. |
13
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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. |
14
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For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are
not under the law, but under grace. |
15
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What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the
law, but under grace? God forbid. |
16
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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? |
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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. |
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Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants
of righteousness. |
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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. |
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For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free
from righteousness. |
21
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What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye 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, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end
everlasting life. |
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For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God
is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. |
