Verse 12

So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to it.

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  • Rom 6:2-9 : 2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Or do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore, we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with Him in the likeness of His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in the resurrection. 6 We know this: our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, and we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 7 For the one who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him. 9 We know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has power over Him. 10 For the death He died, He died to sin once for all time; but the life He lives, He lives to God. 11 So you too consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 12 Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires. 13 Do not present the parts of your body as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and the parts of your body as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the law but under grace. 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Certainly not!
  • 1 Cor 6:19-20 : 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 You were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body and spirit, which are God's.
  • 1 Pet 4:2-3 : 2 As a result, you should no longer live the rest of your earthly life for human desires but instead for the will of God. 3 For you have already spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles choose to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
  • Ps 116:16 : 16 O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your maidservant; you have freed me from my chains.