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

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

But thanks be to God that you were slaves of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted,

But now, having been set free from sin and having been enslaved to God, you have your fruit leading to sanctification, and its end is eternal life.

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

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.

Therefore as a result, if she belongs to another man while her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if she belongs to another man.

But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to that by which we were bound, so that we may serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter of the law.

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.

And I was alive once, apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold into slavery to sin.

For what I am doing I do not understand, because what I want to do, this I do not practice, but what I hate, this I do.

But if what I do not want to do, this I do, I agree with the law that it is good.

But now I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that lives in me.

For I know that good does not live in me, that is, in my flesh. For the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.

For the good that I want to do, I do not do, but the evil that I do not want to do, this I do.

But if what I do not want to do, this I am doing, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that lives in me.

but I observe another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that exists in my members.

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