94GOD'S WORD SAYS

 

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GOD'S WORD SAYS

Keep the two chapters in mind

Please read the context. Remember, it was only about 600 years ago that verses and chapters were added to the Bible.

Romans 6

Freedom from sin
v1 What then does this mean? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? v2 God forbid! How can we who died to sin still live in it? v3 Or do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? v4 Therefore we were buried with him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. v5 For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall certainly be in the likeness of his resurrection. v6 We know that our old self was crucified with him, so that the body subject to sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin. v7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. v8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. v9 We know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has dominion over him. v10 For the death he died, he died to sin once for all; the life he lives, he lives to God. v11 So also consider yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

v12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you obey its desires. v13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive, and that were dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. v14 Sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

v15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid! v16 Know ye not that to whom ye present yourselves servants to obey, ye are servants also to obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? v17 But thanks be to God, that ye, which were the servants of sin, became obedient from the heart unto that form of doctrine wherein ye were delivered. v18 Having been made free from sin, ye became servants unto righteousness. v19 – I use an expression from everyday life, because ye are weak men. For just as you yielded your members slaves to impurity and lawlessness to become lawlessness, so now yield them slaves to righteousness to become sanctified. v20 When you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness. v21 What did you gain? Fruit of which you are now ashamed, for the end is death. v22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, your fruit leads to sanctification, and the end is eternal life. v23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 7
Freedom from the Law
v1 Do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law has dominion over a person only as long as he lives? v2 A married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives; but if he dies, she is released from the law that bound her to him. v3 So then, while her husband lives, she is an adulteress if she marries another woman. But if he dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress by marrying another woman.

v4 So you, my brothers, have also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, and we should bear fruit for God. v5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. v6 But now we have been released from the law, having died to what we were once held captive to, so that we serve in newness of life through the Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

v7 Shall we then say that the law is sin? Certainly not! But I learned sin through the law. I did not know lust until the law said, “You shall not covet.” v8 But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of lust. For apart from the law, sin is dead. v9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. The commandment that was to bring life proved to be death to me. v11 For sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

v12 So then the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. v13 Did that which is good become my death? No! But sin, that it might appear sin, took advantage of what is good to bring death to me, so that sin through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.

v14 We know that the law is spiritual, but I am flesh, sold under sin. v15 For I do not understand what I am doing. What I want I do not do, but what I hate I do. v16 But when I do what I do not want, I agree with the law that it is good. v17 So then it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

v18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells nothing good. For to will is present with me, but to carry out the good is not present.I cannot. v19 For the good that I would, I do not do; but the evil that I would not, that I do. v20 But when I do what I would not, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.

v21 So I find this law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me. v22 For I delight in the law of God within myself. v23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

v24 O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? v25 But thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! With the mind then I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

YOU ARE FREE FROM THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH LAW