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What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!

But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching to which you were given over,

But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit, leading to sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

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

For the married woman has been bound by law to her husband while he is living, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.

So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man.

But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were constrained, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, worked out in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the Law sin is dead.

Now I was once alive apart from the Law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died;

For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, having been sold into bondage under sin.

For what I am working out, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.

But if I do the very thing I do not want, I agree with the Law, that it is good.

So now, no longer am I the one working it out, but sin which dwells in me.

For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the working out of the good is not.

For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.

But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one working it out, but sin which dwells in me.

but I see a different law in my members, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a captive to the law of sin which is in my members.

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.

so that the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.