so that we should no longer be the slaves of sin;
006:007 for he who has paid the penalty of death stands absolved
from his sin.
006:008 But, seeing that we have died with Christ, we believe that we
shall also live with Him;
006:009 because we know that Christ, having come back to life,
is no longer liable to die.
006:010 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.
006:011 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.
006:012 Let not Sin therefore reign as king in your mortal bodies,
causing you to be in subjection to their cravings;
006:013 and no longer lend your faculties as unrighteous weapons for Sin
to use. On the contrary surrender your very selves to God
as living men who have risen from the dead, and surrender
your several faculties to God, to be used as weapons to
maintain the right.
006:014 For Sin shall not be lord over you, since you are subjects
not of Law, but of grace.
006:015 Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under
the authority of Law, but under grace? No, indeed!
006:016 Do you not know that if you surrender yourselves as bondservants
to obey any one, you become the bondservants of him whom you obey,
whether the bondservants of Sin (with death as the result)
or of Duty (resulting in righteousness)?
006:017 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