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6 : 1 What shall we say then?Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
6 : 2 By no means! How canwe who died to sin still live in it?
6 : 3 Do you not know that all of uswho have been baptizedinto Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
6 : 4 We wereburied therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just asChrist was raised from the dead bythe glory of the Father, we too might walk innewness of life.
6 : 5 Forif we have been united with him ina death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
6 : 6 We know thatour old selfwas crucified with him in order thatthe body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
6 : 7 Forone who has diedhas been set freefrom sin.
6 : 8 Nowif we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
6 : 9 We know thatChrist, being raised from the dead, will never die again;death no longer has dominion over him.
6 : 10 For the death he died he died to sin,once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.
6 : 11 So you also must consider yourselvesdead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
6 : 12 Let notsin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.
6 : 13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, butpresent yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
6 : 14 Forsinwill have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
6 : 15 What then?Are we to sinbecause we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
6 : 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselvesto anyone as obedient slaves,you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
6 : 17 Butthanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to thestandard of teaching to which you were committed,
6 : 18 and,having been set free from sin,have become slaves of righteousness.
6 : 19 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. Forjust as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your membersas slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
6 : 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
6 : 21 But what fruit were you getting at that time from the thingsof which you are now ashamed?For the end of those things is death.
6 : 22 But now that youhave been set free from sin andhave become slaves of God,the fruit you get leads to sanctification andits end, eternal life.
6 : 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.