Romans 6:15

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What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.

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  • Titus 2:11-14 : 11 For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men, 12 Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life; 13 Looking for the glad hope, the revelation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ; 14 Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.
  • Eph 2:8-9 : 8 Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God: 9 Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself. 10 For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.
  • Rom 6:1-2 : 1 What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace? 2 In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?
  • 1 Cor 9:20-21 : 20 And to the Jews I was as a Jew, so that I might give the good news to them; to those under the law I was the same, not as being myself under the law, but so that I might give the good news to those under the law. 21 To those without the law I was as one without the law, not as being without law to God, but as under law to Christ, so that I might give the good news to those without the law.
  • 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.
  • Gal 2:17-18 : 17 But if, while we were desiring to get righteousness through Christ, we ourselves were seen to be sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? In no way! 18 For if I put up again those things which I gave to destruction, I am seen to be a wrongdoer.
  • Rom 3:9 : 9 What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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  • Rom 6:11-14
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    11Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

    12For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;

    13And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.

    14For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.

  • Rom 6:1-2
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    1What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace?

    2In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?

  • Gal 2:16-17
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    16Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.

    17But if, while we were desiring to get righteousness through Christ, we ourselves were seen to be sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? In no way!

  • Rom 7:5-8
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    5For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

    6But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

    7What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

    8But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.

  • Rom 9:14
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    14What may we say then? is God not upright? let it not be said.

  • Rom 6:16-18
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    16Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.

    17But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;

    18And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.

  • Rom 3:6-9
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    6In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?

    7But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?

    8Let us not do evil so that good may come (a statement which we are falsely said by some to have made), because such behaviour will have its right punishment.

    9What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;

  • Rom 5:20-21
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    20And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:

    21That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • Gal 5:18
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    18But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

  • Rom 4:15
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    15For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.

  • Rom 7:13-14
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    13Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.

    14For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.

  • Rom 11:6
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    6But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.

  • Gal 5:4
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    4You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.

  • 1 Cor 6:15
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    15Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be.

  • Rom 5:13
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    13Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken.

  • Rom 3:31
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    31Do we, then, through faith make the law of no effect? in no way: but we make it clear that the law is important.

  • Gal 3:21
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    21Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

  • Rom 6:20
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    20When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.

  • Rom 5:15
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    15But the free giving of God is not like the wrongdoing of man. For if, by the wrongdoing of one man death came to numbers of men, much more did the grace of God, and the free giving by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, come to men.

  • Gal 5:1
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    1Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.

  • Rom 8:1-2
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    1For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.

    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

  • Gal 2:21
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    21I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.

  • Rom 2:12
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    12All those who have done wrong without the law will get destruction without the law: and those who have done wrong under the law will have their punishment by the law;

  • Rom 6:6-7
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    6Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.

    7Because he who is dead is free from sin.

  • Rom 7:17
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    17So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

  • Rom 6:22-23
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    22But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.

    23For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • Rom 3:20
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    20Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • Gal 3:25
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    25But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a servant.

  • 1 Cor 15:56
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    56The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:

  • 2 Cor 6:1
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    1We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.

  • Gal 5:13
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    13Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.

  • Rom 8:4
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    4So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.