Romans 6 8-16

  02/02 ~ From New Testament Letters

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         Paul’s Letter To The Romans

8 - Now if we have died with Christ (in baptism, the old self died) then we believe that we will also live with him. 9 We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, never dies again. Death no longer has dominion over him. 10 For the death he died, he died to sin - once for all - and the life he lives he lives to God. 11 So you also, consider yourselves dead to sin, and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

12 Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13 Don’t use your body to sin, but present yourself to God as one who has been brought from death to life, and your body to God as an instrument for righteousness. 14 For sin shall have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

     15 What then? Are we to sin because we’re not under law but under grace? By no means! 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, whether slaves to sin [hamartia - missing the mark”] {entropy} which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? {Rightness, life. God is Life, and “is Perfect”. So imperfect is entropy the worm and fire/slow gehenna crucible, that doesn’t quit/reverse. Also imperfect is an abyss of potential.. But! “Perfect” means the ‘end’ of all this can only be the best one possible.}

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Tomorrows verses - Romans 6:17-23

By Necessity Paraphrased

Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Gospels and N.T. Letters Reading & Study (In their natural order) My own studies.