Romans 6
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Romans 6
Dying and Rising with Christ
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; Rom 3.5, 8What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may increase? 2#Rom 7.4, 6; Gal 2.19; Col 3.3; 1 Pet 2.24By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it? 3#Acts 2.38; 8.16; 19.5Do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4#Gal 6.15; Eph 4.22–24; Col 2.12; 3.10Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
5For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6#Rom 7.24; Gal 2.20; Eph 4.22; Col 3.9We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, so we might no longer be enslaved to sin. 7For whoever has died is freed#6.7 Or justified from sin. 8But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9#Rev 1.18We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10#Heb 7.27The death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God. 11#v 2; Gal 2.19So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
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Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies, so that you obey their desires. 13#Rom 7.5; 12.1; Col 3.5No longer present your members to sin as instruments#6.13 Or weapons of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments#6.13 Or weapons of righteousness. 14#Rom 8.2; Gal 5.18For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Slaves of Righteousness
15What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16#Mt 6.24; Jn 8.34; Rom 11.2; 2 Pet 2.19Do you not know that, if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17#Rom 1.8; 2 Tim 1.13But thanks be to God that you who were slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted 18#Jn 8.32; Rom 8.2and that you, having been set free from sin, have become enslaved to righteousness. 19#v 13; Rom 3.5; 15.1I am speaking in human terms because of your limitations.#6.19 Gk the weakness of your flesh For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness, leading to even more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification.
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Mt 6.24; Jn 8.34 When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21#Rom 7.5; 8.6, 13, 21So what fruit did you then gain from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death. 22#Jn 8.32; 1 Cor 7.22; 1 Pet 2.16But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the fruit you have leads to sanctification, and the end is eternal life. 23#Rom 5.12, 21; Gal 6.7, 8For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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