6What should we say, then? Should we go on sinning so that grace may increase -G5101G2046G3767G1961G266G2443G5485G41212Of course not! How can we who died as far as sin is concerned go on living in it?G3361G1096G4459G3748G599G266G2198G2089G1722G8463Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into union with the Messiah Jesus were baptized into his death -G2228G50G3754G3745G907G1519G2424G5547G907G1519G846G22884Therefore, through baptism we were buried with him into his death so that, just as the Messiah was raised from the dead by the Father's glory, we too may live an entirely new life.G3767G4916G846G1223G908G1519G2288G2443G5618G5547G1453G1537G3498G1223G1391G3962G3779G2249G2532G4043G1722G2538G22225For if we have become united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.G1063G1487G1096G4854G3667G846G2288G2071G235G2532G3866We know that our old natures were crucified with him so that our sin-laden bodies might be rendered powerless and we might no longer be slaves to sin.G1097G5124G3754G2257G3820G444G4957G2443G4983G266G2673G3371G2248G1398G3371G1398G2667For the person who has died has been freed from sin.G1063G599G1344G575G2668Now if we have died with the Messiah, we believe that we will also live with him,G1161G1487G599G4862G5547G4100G3754G4800G2532G4800G8469for we know that the Messiah, who was raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has mastery over him.G1492G3754G5547G1453G1537G3498G599G3765G2288G2961G3765G2961G84610For when he died, he died once and for all as far as sin is concerned. But now that he is alive, he lives for God.G3739G1063G599G599G266G2178G1161G3739G2198G2198G231611In the same way, you too must continually consider yourselves dead as far as sin is concerned, but living for God through the Messiah Jesus.G3779G3049G5210G2532G1438G1511G3498G3303G266G1161G2198G2316G1722G2424G5547G2257G296212Therefore, do not let sin rule your mortal bodies so that you obey their desires.G936G3361G266G3767G936G1722G5216G2349G4983G1519G5219G846G1722G1939G84613Stop offering the parts of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have been brought from death to life and the parts of your body as instruments of righteousness to God.G3366G3936G5216G3196G3696G93G266G235G3936G1438G2316G5613G2198G1537G3498G2532G5216G3196G3696G1343G231614For sin will not have mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.613G1063G266G2961G3756G2961G5216G1063G2075G3756G5259G3551G235G5259G548515What, then, does this mean? Should we go on sinning because we are not under law but under grace? Of course not!G5101G3767G264G3754G2070G3756G5259G3551G235G5259G5485G3361G109616Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey - either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness -G1492G3756G3754G3739G3936G1438G1401G1519G5218G1401G2075G3739G5219G2273G266G1519G2288G2228G5218G1519G134317But thank God that, though you were once slaves of sin, you became obedient from your hearts to that form of teaching with which you were entrusted!G1161G2316G5485G3754G2258G1401G266G1161G5219G1537G2588G5179G1322G1519G3739G386018And since you have been freed from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness.G1659G1161G1659G575G266G1402G134319I am speaking in simple terms because of the frailty of your human nature. Just as you once offered the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater disobedience, so now, in the same way, you must offer the parts of your body as slaves to righteousness that leads to sanctification.G3004G442G1223G769G5216G4561G1063G5618G3936G5216G3196G1401G167G2532G458G1519G458G3779G3568G3936G5216G3196G1401G1343G1519G3820For when you were slaves of sin, you were "free" as far as righteousness was concerned.G1063G3753G2258G1401G266G2258G1658G134321What benefit did you get from doing those things you are now ashamed of? For those things resulted in death.G5101G3767G2590G2192G5119G1909G3739G1870G3568G1870G1063G5056G1565G228822But now that you have been freed from sin and have become God's slaves, the benefit you reap is sanctification, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in union with the Messiah Jesus our Lord.G1161G3570G1659G575G266G1161G1402G2316G2192G5216G2590G1519G38G1161G5056G166G2222
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