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for he who has paid the penalty of death stands absolved from his sin.

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Death has no longer any power over Him. For by the death which He died He became, once for all, dead in relation to sin; but by the life which He now lives He is alive in relation to God.

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For Sin shall not be lord over you, since you are subjects not of Law, but of grace.

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your human infirmity leads me to employ these familiar figures--and just as you once surrendered your faculties into bondage to Impurity and ever-increasing disregard of Law, so you must now surrender them into bondage to Righteousness ever advancing tow

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For when you were the bondservants of sin, you were under no sort of subjection to Righteousness.

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At that time, then, what benefit did you get from conduct which you now regard with shame? Why, such things finally result in death.

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For the wages paid by Sin are death; but God's free gift is the Life of the Ages bestowed upon us in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Brethren, do you not know--for I am writing to people acquainted with the Law--that it is during our lifetime that we are subject to the Law?

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A wife, for instance, whose husband is living is bound to him by the Law; but if her husband dies the law that bound her to him has now no hold over her.

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For whilst we were under the thraldom of our earthly natures, sinful passions-- made sinful by the Law--were always being aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield fruit to death.

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What follows? Is the Law itself a sinful thing? No, indeed; on the contrary, unless I had been taught by the Law, I should have known nothing of sin as sin. For instance, I should not have known what covetousness is, if the Law had not repeatedly said,

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Sin took advantage of this, and by means of the Commandment stirred up within me every kind of coveting; for apart from Law sin would be dead.

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For sin seized the advantage, and by means of the Commandment it completely deceived me, and also put me to death.

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For we know that the Law is a spiritual thing; but I am unspiritual--the slave, bought and sold, of sin.

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For what I do, I do not recognize as my own action. What I desire to do is not what I do, but what I am averse to is what I do.

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For I know that in me, that is, in my lower self, nothing good has its home; for while the will to do right is present with me, the power to carry it out is not.

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For what I do is not the good thing that I desire to do; but the evil thing that I desire not to do, is what I constantly do.

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For in my inmost self all my sympathy is with the Law of God;

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for the Spirit's Law-- telling of Life in Christ Jesus--has set me free from the Law that deals only with sin and death.

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For what was impossible to the Law--powerless as it was because it acted through frail humanity--God effected. Sending His own Son in a body like that of sinful human nature and as a sacrifice for sin, He pronounced sentence upon sin in human nature;

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For if men are controlled by their earthly natures, they give their minds to earthly things. If they are controlled by their spiritual natures, they give their minds to spiritual things.

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Because for the mind to be given up to earthly things means death; but for it to be given up to spiritual things means Life and peace.

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Abandonment to earthly things is a state of enmity to God. Such a mind does not submit to God's Law, and indeed cannot do so.

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For if you so live, death is near; but if, through being under the sway of the spirit, you are putting your old bodily habits to death, you will live.

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For those who are led by God's Spirit are, all of them, God's sons.

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