Romans:6:3-23

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* And do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death ? * Well , then , we by our baptism were buried with Him in death , in order that , just as Christ was raised from among the dead by the Father 's glorious power , we also should live an entirely new life . * For since we have become one with Him by sharing in His death , we shall also be one with Him by sharing in His resurrection . * This we know –that our old self was nailed to the cross with Him , in order that our sinful nature might be deprived of its power , so that we should no longer be the slaves of sin ; * for he who has paid the penalty of death stands absolved from his sin . * But , seeing that we have died with Christ , we believe that we shall also live with Him ; * because we know that Christ , having come back to life , is no longer liable to die . * Death has no longer any power over Him . For by the death which He died He became , once for all , dead in relation to sin ; but by the life which He now lives He is alive in relation to God . * In the same way you also must regard yourselves as dead in relation to sin , but as alive in relation to God , because you are in Christ Jesus . * Let not Sin therefore reign as king in your mortal bodies , causing you to be in subjection to their cravings ; * and no longer lend your faculties as unrighteous weapons for Sin to use . On the contrary surrender your very selves to God as living men who have risen from the dead , and surrender your several faculties to God , to be used as weapons to maintain the right . * For Sin shall not be lord over you , since you are subjects not of Law , but of grace . * Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under the authority of Law , but under grace ? No , indeed ! * Do you not know that if you surrender yourselves as bondservants to obey any one , you become the bondservants of him whom you obey , whether the bondservants of Sin (with death as the result ) or of Duty (resulting in righteousness )? * But thanks be to God that though you were once in thraldom to Sin , you have now yielded a hearty obedience to that system of truth in which you have been instructed . * You were set free from the tyranny of Sin , and became the bondservants of Righteousness – * your human infirmity leads me to employ these familiar figures –and just as you once surrendered your faculties into bondage to Impurity and ever-increasing disregard of Law , so you must now surrender them into bondage to Righteousness ever advancing towards perfect holiness . * For when you were the bondservants of sin , you were under no sort of subjection to Righteousness . * At that time , then , what benefit did you get from conduct which you now regard with shame ? Why , such things finally result in death . * But now that you have been set free from the tyranny of Sin , and have become the bondservants of God , you have your reward in being made holy , and you have the Life of the Ages as the final result . * For the wages paid by Sin are death ; but God 's free gift is the Life of the Ages bestowed upon us in Christ Jesus our Lord .

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