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^(C1)What shall we say then? Are we to ^(C2)continue in sin so that grace may increase?

^(F1)(C1)Far from it! How shall we who ^(C2)died to sin still live in it?

Or do you not know that all of us who have been ^(C1)baptized into ^(C2)Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?

Therefore we have been ^(C1)buried with Him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was ^(C2)raised from the dead through the ^(C3)glory of the Father, so we too may walk in ^(C4)newness of life.

For ^(C1)if we have become ^(F1)united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be ^(F2)in the likeness of His resurrection,

knowing this, that our ^(C1)old ^(F1)self was ^(C2)crucified with Him, in order that our ^(C3)body of sin might be ^(F2)done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;

for ^(C1)the one who has died is ^(F1)freed from sin.

Now ^(C1)if we have died with Christ, we believe that ^(C2)we shall also live with Him,

knowing that Christ, having been ^(C1)raised from the dead, ^(F1)is never to die again; ^(C2)death no longer is master over Him.

For ^(F1)the death that He died, He died to sin once for all time; but ^(F2)the life that He lives, He lives to ^(F3)God.

So you too, consider yourselves to be ^(C1)dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Therefore sin is not to ^(C1)reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,

and do not go on ^(C1)presenting ^(F1)the parts of your body to sin as ^(F2)instruments of unrighteousness; but ^(C2)present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and ^(F3)your body's parts as ^(F2)instruments of righteousness for God.

For ^(C1)sin shall not ^(C2)be master over you, for ^(C3)you are not under ^(F1)the Law but ^(C4)under grace.

What then? ^(C1)Are we to sin because we are not under ^(F1)the Law but under grace? ^(F2)(C2)Far from it!

Do you not ^(C1)know that the one to whom you present yourselves as ^(C2)slaves for obedience, you are slaves of that same one whom you obey, either of ^(C3)sin ^(F1)resulting in death, or of obedience ^(F2)resulting in righteousness?

But ^(C1)thanks be to God that ^(F1)though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that ^(F2)(C2)form of teaching to which you were entrusted,

and after being ^(C1)freed from sin, you became slaves to righteousness.

^(C1)I am speaking ^(F1)in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just ^(C2)as you presented ^(F2)the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, ^(F3)resulting in further lawlessness, so now present ^(F2)your body's parts as slaves to righteousness, ^(F4)resulting in sanctification.

For ^(C1)when you were slaves of sin, you were free in relation to righteousness.

Therefore what ^(F1)(C1)benefit were you then ^(F2)deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is ^(C2)death.

But now having been ^(C1)freed from sin and ^(C2)enslaved to God, you ^(F1)derive your ^(F2)(C3)benefit, ^(F3)resulting in sanctification, and ^(C4)the outcome, eternal life.

For the wages of ^(C1)sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is ^(C2)eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.