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And the effect of the gift of God was greater than the effect of the offence of Adam: for while the judgment from one man''s offence resulted in condemnation of many, the gift of God in forgiveness of sins resulted in righteousness to many more.

For if by one man''s offence, death reigned, how much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.

For as by one man''s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one man, shall many be made righteous.

For if we have been planted together with him in the likeness of his death, so shall we be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

For we know, that our old selves are crucified with him, so that the sinful body might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

For he that is dead is freed from sin.

For in dying he died once to sin: and in living he lives to God.

Sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are no longer under the law, but under grace.

Do you not know, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are, for you obey him, whether it be to sin or whether it be of obedience to righteousness?

I speak after the manner of men because of the weakness of your flesh: for as you have yielded your members to the servitude of uncleanness and iniquity, so now yield your members to the servitude of righteousness and holiness.

For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.

What kind of fruit did you have then, in the things of which you are now ashamed? for the end thereof is death.

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through our LORD Jesus Christ.

For when we were in the flesh, the wounds of sin, which were by the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruits to death.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Far be it. I would not have known the meaning of sin, except by means of the law: for I would never have known the meaning of lust, except the law said, Thou shalt not covet.

So by means of this commandment, sin found an occasion and provoked in me every kind of lust. For without the law sin was dead.

And the commandment which was ordained to life I found to be for death.

For sin, finding occasion by the commandment, misled me and by it killed me.

Has then that which is good, become death to me? Far be it. But sin that is exposed as sin and works death in me for that which is good, will be the more condemned by means of the law.

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am of the flesh enslaved to sin.