My
highlighted verses: Romans 6:1 ¶What
shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid.
How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were
baptized into his death?
4
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ
was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also
should walk in newness of life.
5
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall
be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 Knowing
this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might
be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For he that
is dead is freed from sin.
8 Now if we
be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9 Knowing
that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more
dominion over him.
10 For in
that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto
God.
11
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive
unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it
in the lusts thereof.
13
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin:
but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and
your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law,
but under grace.
15
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace?
God forbid.
16 Know ye
not, that to 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?
17
But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed
from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
18
Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
19 I speak
after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as
ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto
iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto
holiness.
20 For when
ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
21 What fruit
had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of
those things is death.
22 But now
being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit
unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
23
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through
Jesus Christ our Lord.
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
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