rsv Romans:6:2-15 SEEK
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By no means !
How can we who died to sin still live in it ?
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Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death ?
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We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death ,
so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father ,
we too might walk in newness of life .
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For if we have been united with him in a death like his ,
we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his .
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We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful body might be destroyed ,
and we might no longer be enslaved to sin .
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For he who has died is freed from sin .
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But if we have died with Christ ,
we believe that we shall also live with him .
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For we know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again ;
death no longer has dominion over him .
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The death he died he died to sin ,
once for all ,
but the life he lives he lives to God .
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So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus .
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Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies ,
to make you obey their passions .
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Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness ,
but yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life ,
and your members to God as instruments of righteousness .
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For sin will have no dominion over you ,
since you are not under law but under grace .
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What then ?
Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace ?
By no means !