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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Or don&#8217;t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.6.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">be rendered powerless</span></span></span><span class="content"> that we should no longer be slaves to sin&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.6.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.6.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Slaves to Righteousness</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.6.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Don&#8217;t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey&#8212;whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.6.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.6.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:23 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">through</span></span></span><span class="content"> Christ Jesus our Lord.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">61</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 61</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 61:1-8 is numbered 61:2-9.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. With stringed instruments. Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.61.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear my cry, O God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.61.1"><span class="content">listen to my prayer.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.61.1"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.61.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.61.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">From the ends of the earth I call to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.61.2"><span class="content">I call as my heart grows faint;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.61.2"><span class="content">lead me to the rock that is higher than I.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.61.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.61.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For you have been my refuge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.61.3"><span class="content">a strong tower against the foe.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.61.3"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.61.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.61.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I long to dwell in your tent forever</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.61.4"><span class="content">and take refuge in the shelter of your wings.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">61:4 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.61.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.61.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For you, God, have heard my vows;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.61.5"><span class="content">you have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.61.5"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.61.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.61.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Increase the days of the king&#8217;s life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.61.6"><span class="content">his years for many generations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.61.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.61.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">May he be enthroned in God&#8217;s presence forever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.61.7"><span class="content">appoint your love and faithfulness to protect him.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.61.7"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.61.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.61.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then I will ever sing in praise of your name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.61.8"><span class="content">and fulfill my vows day after day.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PHP.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PHP.4.19"></span></div>
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