G1161–δέ–de

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.

δὲ de “however”

In the same way you also must regard yourselves as dead in relation to sin, but as alive in relation to God, because you are in Christ Jesus.

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But thanks be to God that though you were once in thraldom to Sin, you have now yielded a hearty obedience to that system of truth in which you have been instructed.

δὲ de “however”δὲ de “now”

You were set free from the tyranny of Sin, and became the bondservants of Righteousness--

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But now that you have been set free from the tyranny of Sin, and have become the bondservants of God, you have your reward in being made holy, and you have the Life of the Ages as the final result.

δὲ de “however”δὲ de “now”δὲ de “now”

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.

δὲ de “but”

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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This accounts for the fact that if during her husband's life she lives with another man, she will be stigmatized as an adulteress; but that if her husband is dead she is no longer under the old prohibition, and even though she marries again, she is not

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But seeing that we have died to that which once held us in bondage, the Law has now no hold over us, so that we render a service which, instead of being old and formal, is new and spiritual.

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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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Once, apart from Law, I was alive, but when the Commandment came, sin sprang into life, and I died;

δὲ de “however”δὲ de “however”δὲ de “then”

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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But if I do that which I do not desire to do, I admit the excellence of the Law,

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and now it is no longer I that do these things, but the sin which has its home within me does them.

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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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But if I do that which I desire not to do, it can no longer be said that it is I who do it, but the sin which has its home within me does it.

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but I discover within me a different Law at war with the Law of my understanding, and leading me captive to the Law which is everywhere at work in my body--the Law of sin.

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Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!) To sum up then, with my understanding, I--my true self--am in servitude to the Law of God, but with my lower nature I am in servitude to the Law of sin.

δὲ de “then”δὲ de “but [with]”

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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And those whose hearts are absorbed in earthly things cannot please God.

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You, however, are not devoted to earthly, but to spiritual things, if the Spirit of God is really dwelling in you; whereas if any man has not the Spirit of Christ, such a one does not belong to Him.

δὲ de “now”δέ de “however”

But if Christ is in you, though your body must die because of sin, yet your spirit has Life because of righteousness.

δὲ de “now”δὲ de “however”

And if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Christ from the dead will give Life also to your mortal bodies because of His Spirit who dwells in you.

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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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