Popular Bible Verses from ROM 6

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For the wages—what sin pays as earned compensation to its workers is death; but the gracious gift of God—not earned but freely given—is eternal life in union with Christ Jesus our Lord.

For sin will not gain mastery and rule as lord over you, because you are not under the Law's condemning power and curse, but instead under grace's liberating power and blessing.

Therefore, we have been buried together with Him through baptism into His death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the powerful glory of the Father, so we also are called to walk and conduct our lives in the newness of resurrection life.

Neither continue presenting the members of your body as instruments and weapons of unrighteousness in service to sin; but instead present yourselves once and for all to God as those who are alive from the dead—resurrected to new life—and continually present your bodily members as instruments and weapons of righteousness in service to God.

Knowing and understanding this crucial truth: that our old self—our former identity in Adam—was crucified together with Christ on the cross, so that the body dominated by sin might be rendered powerless, so that we might no longer be enslaved to sin as our master.

In the same way, you also must reckon, consider, and count yourselves to be dead to sin's power and claims, but alive to God and responsive to Him in union with Christ Jesus our Lord.

What then shall we conclude? Should we continue habitually living in sin so that God's grace may increase and abound even more? Absolutely not! May such a thought never enter our minds! How can we who have died to sin's ruling power still go on living in it as a way of life?

Do you not know and understand this principle: that to whomever you present yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are actually slaves to that very master whom you obey—either slaves of sin, which leads ultimately to death, or slaves of obedience to God, which leads to righteousness?

But gratitude be to God that, though you were formerly slaves of sin as your master, you have become wholeheartedly obedient from the very core of your being to the pattern and standard of gospel teaching to which you were entrusted. And having been liberated from sin's mastery and dominion, you have become slaves—willing, devoted servants—to righteousness.