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- Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,
- and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
- For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
- What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!
- Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?
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- Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.
- Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness.
- For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
- What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
- Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey--whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?
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- But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed,
- and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
- I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.
- For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
- Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.
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- But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted.
- You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
- I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
- When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.
- What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!
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- But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.
- For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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- But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.
- For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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