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For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

Do you not know that when you go on presenting yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?

I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, leading to further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

Therefore what benefit were you then having from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

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

Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is master over a person as long as he lives?

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, my brothers, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! Rather, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law. For I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, "You shall not covet."

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

and this commandment, which was to lead to life, was found to lead to death for me.

For sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by working out my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

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.

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.

For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,