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For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,

For he who has died has been freed from sin.

For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.

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

What fruit did you have then in 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 gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?

For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.

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

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, "You shall not covet." Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21">[fn]

But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead.

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.

For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.

For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.

For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.