1 | What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
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2 | God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
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3 | Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were
baptized into his death?
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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.
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5 | For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall
be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
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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.
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7 | For he that is dead is freed from sin.
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8 | Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
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9 | Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no
more dominion over him.
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10 | For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he
liveth unto God.
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11 | Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive
unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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12 | Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in
the lusts thereof.
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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.
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14 | For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law,
but under grace.
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15 | What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under
grace? God forbid.
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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?
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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.
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18 | Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
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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.
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20 | For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
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21 | 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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22 | 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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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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