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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.
CHAPTER 7
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion
over a man as long as he liveth?
2
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to
her
husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of
her
husband.
3
So then if, while
her
husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called
an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress,
though she be married to another man.
4
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the
law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another,
even
to him who is raised from the
dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
5
For when we were in the flesh, the motions of
sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
6
But now
we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in
newness of spirit, and not
in
the oldness of the letter.
7
What shall we say then?
Is
the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law:
for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8
But sin, taking occasion
by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin
was
dead.
9
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and
I died.
10
And the commandment, which
was ordained
to life, I found
to be
unto death.
11
For sin,
taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew
me.
12
Wherefore the law
is
holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13
Was then that which is good made death
unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good;
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