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Romans 6
1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that may abound?
2May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
3Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Jesus were baptized into his death?
4We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as was through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
5For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his ;
6knowing this, that our old man was with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
7For he who has died has been freed from sin.
8But if we died with , we that we will also live with him,
9knowing that , being , dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him!
10For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
11Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Jesus our Lord.
12Therefore don’t let sin in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
13Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of to God.
14For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under .
15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under ? May it never be!
16Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to ?
17But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
18Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of .
19I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to for .
20For when you were servants of sin, you were free from .
21What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of and the result of .
23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is in Jesus our Lord.
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What is sin?
Scripture defines sin as lawlessness, as falling short of God's glory, and as failing to do the good we know we should do. It is not only a list of bad actions but a condition of the heart that produces them, and it is first against God rather than only against people. Scripture also says all have sinned, that its wage is death, and that God is faithful to forgive those who confess.
How do I stop committing the same sin over and over?
Scripture answers a repeated sin by changing what the believer reckons to be true, then by naming the ordinary means: consider yourself dead to sin, stop presenting your body to it, bring it out of secrecy by confession, walk by the Spirit, and remove what feeds the desire. It does not promise a single moment that ends the struggle, and it does not treat repeated falling as proof that grace has run out.
Why do Christians still struggle with sin?
Because salvation changes a person's standing with God immediately but their character gradually, and the New Testament is honest that the old nature keeps fighting the new one until glory. Paul, writing as a mature apostle, describes the very struggle in Romans 7. The presence of a fight is not proof that grace has failed. It is often proof that it has begun.
Why did Jesus rise from the dead?
Jesus rose bodily from the dead because his death alone would have left the debt of sin paid but not proven, and death itself unconquered. The resurrection is God's public verdict that the sacrifice was accepted, his vindication of Christ's claims, and the guarantee that everyone united to Christ by faith will share the same risen life. Without it, Scripture itself says the Gospel would be worthless.