things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom. 6:19–23) Paul uses “an example from everyday life” (v. 19a), and of course slavery and its conditions were everyday phenomena in the world of his day. Nonetheless, the relationship of slave (or
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