SCRIPTURE
Romans 6: 12-23
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Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you
obey their passions. 13 No longer present your members to sin as instruments of
wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from
death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under
grace. 15 What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace?
By no means! 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as
obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which
leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be
to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the
heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted, 18 and that you,
having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. 19 I am
speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations. For just as you
once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater
iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for
sanctification. 20 When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to
righteousness. 21 So what advantage did you then get from the things of which
you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death. 22 But now that you have
been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is
sanctification. The end is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but
the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.