| Chapter 6
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| 1 | What shall we
say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
