| Chapter 6 |
| 1 | What shall we say then? Shall
we continue in sin, that grace may abound? |
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2 | God forbid. How shall we,
that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? |
| 3 | Know ye not,
that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his
death? |
| 4 |
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that
like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so
we also should walk in newness of life. |
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5 | For if we have been planted
together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his
resurrection: |
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6 | Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with
him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not
serve sin. |
| 7
| For he that is dead is freed from sin. |
| 8 | Now if
we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: |
| 9 |
Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no
more dominion over him. |
| 10 | For in that he died, he died unto sin once:
but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. |
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11 | Likewise reckon ye also
yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ
our Lord. |
| 12
| Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye
should obey it in the lusts thereof. |
| 13 | Neither yield ye your members
as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as
those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of
righteousness unto God. |
| 14 | For sin shall not have dominion over you:
for ye are not under the law, but under grace. |
| 15 | What then?
shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God
forbid. |
| 16
| Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to
obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of
obedience unto righteousness? |
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17 | But God be thanked, that ye were the
servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which
was delivered you. |
| 18 | Being then made free from sin, ye became the
servants of righteousness. |
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19 | I speak after the manner of men
because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members
servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your
members servants to righteousness unto holiness. |
| 20 | For when ye
were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. |
| 21 | What
fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of
those things is death. |
| 22 | But now being made free from sin, and become
servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting
life. |
| 23 |
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ our Lord. |
