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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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