Romans 6:12-14
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
Because we have been forgiven of sin and stand justified in Christ’s righteousness, set free from sin’s reign over us, how can we willfully allow sin to reign again? Instead we must choose over and over to offer our minds and bodies as living sacrifices to God, since we are dead to sin and alive in Him! How can we give free reign to sinful thoughts, words, and deeds when we are His, forgiven in mercy by grace? Yet this is the battle we fight daily, putting to death the old man who is warring within to reestablish a foothold. The victory is in Christ by His Spirit.
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