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Consequently, just as condemnation for all people came through one transgression, so too through the one righteous act came righteousness leading to life for all people.

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

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

(For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)

For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.

For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

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

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

So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

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

Or do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person as long as he lives?

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

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, " Do not covet ."

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

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.

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

For I don't understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want—instead, I do what I hate.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.