Part 6

45:006:001 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

45:006:002 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

45:006:003 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

45:006:004 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

45:006:005 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

45:006:006 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

45:006:007 For he that is dead is freed from sin.

45:006:008 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

45:006:009 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

45:006:010 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

45:006:011 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

45:006:012 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

45:006:013 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

45:006:014 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

45:006:015 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

45:006:016 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

45:006:017 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

45:006:018 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

45:006:019 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

45:006:020 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

45:006:021 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

45:006:022 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

45:006:023 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

45:007:001 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

45:007:002 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

45:007:003 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

45:007:004 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

45:007:005 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.