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For until the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not charged to one's account when there is no law.

But the gift is not like the trespass, for if by the trespass of the one, the many died, by much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, multiply to the many.

And the gift is not as through the one who sinned, for on the one hand, judgment from the one sin led to condemnation, but the gift, from many trespasses, led to justification.

For if by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through the one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

For just as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one, the many will be made righteous.

For if we have become identified with him in the likeness of his death, certainly also we will be identified with him in the likeness of his resurrection,

For the one who has died has been freed from sin.

For that death he died, he died to sin once and never again, but that life he lives, he lives to God.

For sin will not be master over you, because you are not under law, but under grace.

Do you not know that to whomever you present yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to whomever you obey, whether sin, leading to death, or 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 immorality and lawlessness, leading to lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with respect to righteousness.

Therefore what sort of fruit did you have then, about which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

For the compensation due sin is death, but the 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 of a person for as long a time as he lives?

For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the husband.

So then, my brothers, you also were brought to death with respect to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

For when we were in the flesh, sinful desires were working through the law in our members, to bear fruit for death.

What then shall we say? Is the law sin? May it never be! But I would not have known sin except through the law, for I would not have known covetousness if the law had not said, "Do not covet."

But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin is dead.