Romans 6:2

World English Bible (2000)

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

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  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
  • Col 3:3 : 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
  • Rom 7:4 : 4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.
  • Gal 2:19 : 19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
  • 1 John 3:9 : 9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.
  • 1 Pet 1:14 : 14 as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
  • 1 Pet 4:1-3 : 1 Forasmuch then as Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin; 2 that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. 3 For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
  • Gal 6:14 : 14 But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
  • Col 2:20 : 20 If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
  • Rom 7:6 : 6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
  • 2 Cor 5:14-17 : 14 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died. 15 He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again. 16 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more. 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
  • Gen 39:9 : 9 He isn't greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"
  • Ps 119:104 : 104 Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. NUN
  • Rom 3:1-4 : 1 Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? 2 Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of God. 3 For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God? 4 May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment."
  • Rom 5:11 : 11 Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
  • Rom 6:5-9 : 5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection; 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him; 9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him! 10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God. 11 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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    3Or don't you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

    4We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ 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 man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

    7For he who has died has been freed from sin.

    8But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;

    9knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!

    10For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

    11Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

    12Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

    13Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

    14For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

    15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

    16Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

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    6May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

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    17But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

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    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

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    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

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    13Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

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    12So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

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    19For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

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    21I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

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    21What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

    22But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

    23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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    15Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

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    21that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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