Romans:6

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* What do we say , then ? Shall we continue in sin , that favor may abound ? * By no means . How shall we , who have died to sin , continue to live in it ? * Do you not know , that as many as have been immersed into Jesus Christ , have been immersed into his death ? * We have been buried , then , together with him , by the immersion into death : that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father ; so we also shall walk in newness of life . * For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death ; we shall then , also , certainly be in the likeness of his resurrection . * Knowing this , that our old man has been crucified with him , that the body of sin might be destroyed , that we should not any longer serve sin : * for he that has died is released from sin . * Moreover , if we have died with Christ , we believe that we shall also live with him . * Knowing that Christ , having been raised from the dead , dies not again ; death has no longer dominion over him : * for that he has died , he has died for sin once : but that he lives , he lives for God . * So reckon yourselves also dead , indeed , to sin ; but alive to God , by Jesus Christ . * Let not sin , therefore , reign in your mortal body , by obeying it . * Neither present your members as instruments of unrighteousness , to sin ; but present yourselves to God , as alive from the dead ; and your members as instruments of righteousness , to God . * Besides , sin shall not have dominion over you : for you are not under law , but under favor . * What then do we say ? Shall we sin , because we are not under law , but under favor ? * Do you not know , that to whom you present yourselves servants , by obedience ; his servants you are whom you thus obey ; whether of sin into death , or of obedience into righteousness ? * But , thanks to God , that though you were the servants of sin ; yet you have heartily obeyed that model of doctrine to which you have been given up . * And being made free from sin , you have become the servants of righteousness . * (I speak after the manner of men , because of the infirmity of your flesh .) Wherefore , as you have presented your members servants to uncleanness , and to iniquity , to work iniquity ; so present now your members , servants to righteousness , to work holiness . * For when you were servants of sin , you were free from righteousness . * And what fruit had you , then , from these things of which you are now ashamed ? for the reward of these things is death . * But now , being set free from sin , and having become servants of God , you have your fruit to holiness : and the end , everlasting life . * For the wages of sin is death : but the gracious gift of God is everlasting life , by Christ Jesus our Lord .

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