Romans 6–7

What shall we say then? ^aShall we continue in sin, that ^bgrace may abound? ^2cGod forbid. How shall we, that ^dare dead to sin, live any longer therein? ³Know ye not, that ^eso many of us as were baptized ^finto Jesus Christ were ^gbaptized into his death? ⁴Therefore we are ^hburied with him by baptism into death: that like as ⁱChrist was raised up from the dead by ^kthe glory of the Father, even so ^lwe also should walk in newness of life. ⁵For ^mif we have been ⁿplanted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: ⁶knowing this, that ^oour old man ^pis crucified with him, that ^qthe body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. ⁷For ^rhe that is dead is ^sfreed from sin. ⁸Now ^tif we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: ⁹knowing that ^uChrist being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. ¹⁰For in that he died, ^whe died unto sin ^xonce: but in that he liveth, he ^yliveth unto God. ¹¹Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be ^zdead indeed unto sin, but alive ^aunto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. ¹²Let not ^bsin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. ¹³Neither ^cyield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but ^dyield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. ¹⁴For ^bsin shall not have dominion over you: for ^eye are not under the law, but under grace.

¹⁵What then? ^fshall we sin, ^zbecause we are not under the law, but under grace? ^gGod forbid. ¹⁶Know ye not, that ^hto whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? ¹⁷But God be thanked, ⁱthat ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart ^kthat form of doctrine which was delivered you. ¹⁸Being then ^lmade free from sin, ^mye became the servants of righteousness. ¹⁹ⁿI speak after the manner of men ^obecause of ^othe infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have ^cyielded your members servants to uncleanness and to ^piniquity unto iniquity; even so now ^dyield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. ²⁰For when ye were ^hthe servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. ^21qWhat fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for ^rthe end of those things is death. ²²But now being ^lmade free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. ²³For the ^swages of sin is ^tdeath; but the gift of God is ^ueternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

VII.Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man, as long as he liveth? ²For ^athe woman ^bwhich hath a husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of the husband. ³So then ^cif, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. ⁴Wherefore, my brethren, ye also ^dare become dead to the law ^eby the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that ^fwe should bring forth fruit unto God. ⁵For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work ^gin our members ^hto bring forth fruit ⁱunto death. ⁶But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve ^kin newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

⁷What shall we say then? Is the law sin? ^lGod forbid. Nay, ^mI had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, ⁿThou shalt not covet. ⁸But sin, ^mtaking ^ooccasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For ^pqwithout the law sin was dead. ⁹For I was alive ^qwithout the law once: but when the commandment came, sin ^rrevived, and I died. ¹⁰And the commandment, ^swhich was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. ¹¹For sin, taking ^ooccasion by the commandment, ^tdeceived me, and by it slew me. ¹²Wherefore ^uthe law is holy, and the commandment holy, and ^xjust, and ^ygood. ¹³Was then that which is good made death unto me? ^lGod forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

¹⁴For we know that the law is ^zspiritual: but I am ^zcarnal, ^asold under sin. ¹⁵For that which I do I allow not: for ^bwhat I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. ¹⁶If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto ^cthe law that it is good. ^17dNow then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. ¹⁸For I know that ^ein me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: ^bfor to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. ¹⁹For ^bthe good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. ^20dNow if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. ²¹I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. ²²For ^fI delight in the law of God after ^gthe inward man: ²³but I see ^hanother law in ⁱmy members, ^kwarring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. ²⁴O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the ^lbody of this death? ^25mI thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

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