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[1] What shall we then say? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
[2] Far be it: for if we are persons that have died to sin, how can we again live in it?
[3] Or do ye not know, that we who are baptized into Jesus Messiah, are baptized into his death?
[4] For we are buried with him in baptism unto death; that as Jesus Messiah arose from the dead into the glory of his Father, so also we, to walk in a new life.
[5] For if we have been planted together with him into the likeness of his death, so shall we be also into his resurrection.
[6] For we know, that our old man is crucified with him; that the body of sin might be abolished, and we be no more servants to sin:
[7] for he that is dead [to it], is emancipated from sin.
[8] If then we are dead with Messiah, let us believe that we shall live with the same Messiah.
[9] For we know that Messiah rose from the dead, and no more dieth; death hath no dominion over him.
[10] For in dying, he died for sin, once; and in living, he liveth unto God.
[11] So also do ye account yourselves as being dead to sin, and alive to God, through our Lord Jesus Messiah.
[12] Therefore let not sin reign in your dead body, so that ye obey its lusts.
[13] And also give not up your members as instruments of evil unto sin, but give up yourselves to God, as those who have been resuscitated from the dead; and let your members be instruments for the righteousness of God.
[14] And 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? Far be it.
[16] Know ye not, that to whomsoever ye give up yourselves to serve in bondage, his servants ye are, whom ye serve; whether it be to sin, or whether it be to righteousness, that ye give ear?
[17] But thanks be to God, that ye were [once] the servants of sin but have [now] from the heart obeyed that form of doctrine to which ye are devoted.
[18] And when ye were emancipated from sin, ye became servants to righteousness.
[19] -(I speak as among men, because of the infirmity of your flesh.)-As ye [once] gave up your members to the servitude of pollution and iniquity, so also now give ye up your members to the servitude of righteousness and sanctity.
[20] For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were emancipated from righteousness.
[21] And what harvest had ye then, in that of which ye are now ashamed? For the result thereof is death.
[22] And now, as ye have been emancipated from sin, and have become servants to God, your fruits are holy; and the result thereof is life everlasting.
[23] For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is life eternal, through our Lord Jesus Messiah.
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