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Sin’s Power Is Broken

Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more of his wonderful grace?

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Dead to Sin, Alive to God

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?

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Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it?

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Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

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Or have you forgotten that when we were joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death?

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Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

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For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives.

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Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

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Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised to life as he was.

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For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,

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We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.

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knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be [a]done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.

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For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin.

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For he who has died has been [b]freed from sin.

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And since we died with Christ, we know we will also live with him.

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Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

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We are sure of this because Christ was raised from the dead, and he will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him.

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knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.

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

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For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

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

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Likewise you also, [c]reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

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Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

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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.

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And do not present your members as [d]instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

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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.

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For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

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

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From Slaves of Sin to Slaves of God

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!

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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.

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Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?

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

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But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were [e]delivered.

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

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And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

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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.

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I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness [f]for holiness.

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

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For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

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

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What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

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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.

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But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit [g]to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.

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For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.

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For the wages of sin is death, but the [h]gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Romans 6

Romans 6