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Romans 6:19

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I’m using an example from everyday human life to help you understand. You used to offer yourselves as slaves to dirty habits, and you did more and more things that were wrong. Now offer yourselves as slaves to the right way of living. Then you will become holy.

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Don’t offer any part of yourself to serve sin and do what’s wrong. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have been brought from death to life. Offer every part of yourself to God to do what’s right.

But some people might be thinking about this in a human way and ask, “Doesn’t the fact that we’re wrong prove more clearly that God is right? So how is it fair for God to punish us?”

Some of you used to do things like that. But you were washed and made holy and right with God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Brothers and sisters, let me give you an example from everyday life. Once people make an official agreement, no one else can cancel it or change it.

Make sure that no one misses out on God’s grace and that no bitter plant grows up, because if it does, it will cause trouble and make many people impure.

We don’t have a high priest who can’t feel what we feel when we’re weak. Instead, we have a high priest who has been tempted in every way just as we are, but without sinning.

Do I say this only on human authority? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing?

Your bragging isn’t good. Don’t you know that just a little yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise?

We who are strong should accommodate those who are weak and not please only ourselves.

In the same way, the Holy Spirit helps us when we are weak. We don’t know what we should pray for, but the Spirit himself prays for us with groans that are too deep for words.

Jesus went all over Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every illness and sickness that the people had.

But I recognize that there’s another law at work inside of me. It’s fighting the law of my mind and making me a prisoner to the law of sin that’s at work within me.




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