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If you serve sin as your master, it will pay you with death. But if you belong to our Lord Jesus Christ, God gives you a gift! That gift is life with God for ever.

Sin will no longer have authority over you. The Law which God gave to Moses does not control your life. God's grace now controls your life.

Our baptism shows that they buried us, just like they buried Christ after his death. It is as if we died with him and they buried us with him. Because of that, God will also raise us, just as he raised Christ from death. God the Father is so great and powerful that he raised Christ to a new life. That means that we also can live our lives in a new way.

Sin can use your body to do wicked things. So do not let any parts of your body serve sin as their master. Instead, be ready to serve God as your master. You can do that because you now have a new life. Your old life is dead. So give every part of your body to God. Then he will use you to do right things.

We know that God has caused our old nature to die with Christ on the cross. This happened so that God could make us free from the power of sin in our lives. We are no longer like slaves who have sin as their master.

So you also should think about yourselves in the same way. Sin has no power over you, as if you were dead. In your new life, you live to serve God, because you belong to Christ Jesus.

Someone might say, ‘Perhaps we should continue to do wrong things. Then God can be kind to us in more and more ways.’ No! Certainly we should not do that! Sin does not rule our lives any longer. That old life is dead! So it is not right that we should continue to do wrong things.

Remember this: when you agree to serve someone as a slave, you have to obey that person as your master. You may choose to serve sin as your master. If you do that, you will die. Or you may choose to obey God. If you do that, you will live in a way that is right.

At one time, you were slaves to sin. But then you received God's true message, and you were happy to obey it. I thank God because of that! As a result, God has made you free from the power of sin. You are now like slaves who serve everything that is right and good.