(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
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11So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,
13and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.
14For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.
20For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.
21So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.
22But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.
23For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
16Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?
17But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to,
18and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.
6We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
7(For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)
24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.
5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.
6But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.
18Flee sexual immorality!“Every sin a person commits is outside of the body”– but the immoral person sins against his own body.
19Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
20For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
11Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
1Consecration of the Believer’s Life Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice– alive, holy, and pleasing to God– which is your reasonable service.
5So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.
1So, since Christ suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same attitude, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin,
2in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.
12So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh
13(for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.
5Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ,
19Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.
14Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.
19Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.
1Self-Purification Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that could defile the body and the spirit, and thus accomplish holiness out of reverence for God.
14Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,
15but, like the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in all of your conduct,
16for it is written,“You shall be holy, because I am holy.”
21So if someone cleanses himself of such behavior, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart, useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.
19Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,
22You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,
8because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
16Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God’s slaves.
13Practice Love For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another.
14For we know that the law is spiritual– but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.
23But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.
17But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.
16But I say, live by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.
22but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him–
7Obey with enthusiasm, as though serving the Lord and not people,
13“Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both.” The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
5For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.
23You were bought with a price. Do not become slaves of men.