Romans:6

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* What shall we say then ? Shall we keep on doing wrong things so that God will be more kind to us ? * No , surely not ! We died to our wrong ways and no longer live in them . * All of us have been baptised in water . This means we are joined to Christ Jesus . We were baptised into his death . Do you know that ? * We were buried when he was buried because we were baptised into his death . Christ was raised from death by the wonderful power of the Father . So we also must live a new life . * Have we shared with Christ and died as he died ? Then we shall share with him by rising from death as he arose . * We know this is true . The old person we used to be was nailed to the cross with him , so that our bodies which do wrong things would die . Then we will no longer be like slaves to the wrong things we used to do . * Anyone who has died no longer does wrong things . * If we have died with Christ , we believe that we will also live with him . * We know that Christ was raised from death and will not die again . Death has no power over him any more . * He died . And he died once for all time , so that people would stop their wrong ways . But now he lives . And he lives for God . * So you also must think you are dead , and stop your wrong ways . And you must think you are living for God along with Christ Jesus our Lord . * Do not let wrong things rule over your bodies that are going to die . Do not do the things your bodies want . * Do not use your bodies to do wrong things . But give yourselves to God like men who have been raised from death to life . Give your bodies to God and use them to do good things . * Wrong ways will not be your masters . The law does not rule over you now , but Gods loving kindness rules over you . * What then ? The law does not rule over us now . Gods loving kindness rules over us . So , shall we do wrong things ? No , never ! * If you give yourselves to be slaves and obey your master , you are not free . You are his slaves . Do you not know this : you may be slaves to wrong things ? But you will not live for ever . Or you may be slaves to obey God . Then you will be made good people and live with him . * You were at one time slaves to wrong things . But I praise God that you obeyed what your teachers taught you . And you obeyed because you wanted to obey . * You were made free from doing wrong things . You were made slaves to good things . * I speak the way people would think about such things , because your minds are weak . At one time you gave your bodies to be slaves to your unclean ways , and to do more and more wrong things . So now give your bodies to be slaves to doing what is right , and to being good . * When you were slaves to wrong things , you were free from doing good things . * You are now ashamed of those things . What good did they do you ? For the end of those things is death . * But now you have been made free from wrong ways and you have been made Gods slaves . You are made good and you will live for ever . * The reward that wrong ways give is to die . But the gift which God gives is to live for ever . Christ Jesus our Lord has done this for us .

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