The Bible
Romans Chapter 6
1What shall we say then? Should we continue in shortcoming, that grace might increase? 2Not at all! How could we who died to shortcoming, still live in it? 3Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into AnointedOne Jesus were baptized into his death? 4So we were buried with him through baptism into death, that just as AnointedOne was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
5For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection; 6knowing this, that our old human was crucified with him, that the body of shortcoming might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in slavery to shortcoming. 7For whoever has died has been freed from shortcoming. 8But if we died with AnointedOne, we believe that we will also live with him, 9knowing that AnointedOne, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer dominates him! 10For the death that he died, he died to shortcoming one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God. 11Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to shortcoming, but alive to God in AnointedOne Jesus our Lord.
12Therefore don't let shortcoming reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13Also, do not present your members to shortcoming as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14For shortcoming can't dominate you, for you are not under law, but under grace.
15What then? Should we [deliberately] fall-short, because we are not under law but under grace? Not at all! 16Don't you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey, whether of shortcoming to death, or of obedience to righteousness? 17But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of shortcoming, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered. 18Being made free from shortcoming, you became bondservants of righteousness.
19I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification. 20For when you were servants of shortcoming, you were free from righteousness. 21So what fruit were you getting at that time from the things which you are now ashamed of? For the outcome of those things is death. 22But now, being made free from shortcoming and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life. 23For the wages of shortcoming is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in AnointedOne Jesus our Lord.
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