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Romans 6:10 (NLT)

When he died, he died once to break the power of sin. But now that he lives, he lives for the glory of God.

Romans 6:11 (NLT)

So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:12 (NLT)

Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to sinful desires.

Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God.

Romans 6:14 (NLT)

Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace.

Romans 6:15 (NLT)

Well then, since God’s grace has set us free from the law, does that mean we can go on sinning? Of course not!

Romans 6:16 (NLT)

Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living.

Romans 6:17 (NLT)

Thank God! Once you were slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly obey this teaching we have given you.

Romans 6:18 (NLT)

Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living.

Romans 6:19 (NLT)

Because of the weakness of your human nature, I am using the illustration of slavery to help you understand all this. Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led ever deeper into sin. Now you must give yourselves to be slaves to righteous living so that you will become holy.

Romans 6:20 (NLT)

When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the obligation to do right.

Romans 6:21 (NLT)

And what was the result? You are now ashamed of the things you used to do, things that end in eternal doom.

Romans 6:22 (NLT)

But now you are free from the power of sin and have become slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to holiness and result in eternal life.

Romans 7:1 (NLT)

Now, dear brothers and sisters —you who are familiar with the law—don’t you know that the law applies only while a person is living?

Romans 7:2 (NLT)

For example, when a woman marries, the law binds her to her husband as long as he is alive. But if he dies, the laws of marriage no longer apply to her.

Romans 7:3 (NLT)

So while her husband is alive, she would be committing adultery if she married another man. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law and does not commit adultery when she remarries.

Romans 7:4 (NLT)

So, my dear brothers and sisters, this is the point: You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ. And now you are united with the one who was raised from the dead. As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God.

Romans 7:6 (NLT)

But now we have been released from the law, for we died to it and are no longer captive to its power. Now we can serve God, not in the old way of obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way of living in the Spirit.

Romans 7:7 (NLT)

Well then, am I suggesting that the law of God is sinful? Of course not! In fact, it was the law that showed me my sin. I would never have known that coveting is wrong if the law had not said, “You must not covet.”

Romans 7:9 (NLT)

At one time I lived without understanding the law. But when I learned the command not to covet, for instance, the power of sin came to life,

Romans 7:10 (NLT)

and I died. So I discovered that the law’s commands, which were supposed to bring life, brought spiritual death instead.

Romans 7:11 (NLT)

Sin took advantage of those commands and deceived me; it used the commands to kill me.

Romans 7:12 (NLT)

But still, the law itself is holy, and its commands are holy and right and good.

Romans 7:13 (NLT)

But how can that be? Did the law, which is good, cause my death? Of course not! Sin used what was good to bring about my condemnation to death. So we can see how terrible sin really is. It uses God’s good commands for its own evil purposes.

Romans 7:14 (NLT)

So the trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual and good. The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin.