- What then shall we say? Should we persist in sin in order that grace may abound? Of course not! We have died to sin. How can we live in it any longer?
- Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
- For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall also be united with him in his resurrection. We know that our old self was crucified with him, so that our sinful body might be destroyed and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.
- Nor should you present any part of your body as an instrument for wickedness leading to sin. Rather, present yourselves to God as having been raised from death to life and the parts of your body to God as instruments for righteousness.
- For sin is no longer to have any power over you, since you are not under the Law but under grace.
- What then? Should we sin because we are not under the Law but under grace? Of course not!
- However, now that you have been freed from sin and bound to the service of God, the benefit you receive is sanctification, and the end is eternal life.
- For the wages of sin is death, but the gift freely given by God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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