Romans 6:14-16 Part 3 of 4

For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey--whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?

 

Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey 

2 Peter 2:19  They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity--for "people are slaves to whatever has mastered them." 

whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death

Romans 6:6  For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin--...

Romans 6:12  Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.

Romans 6:20-21  When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!

Genesis 4:6-7  Then the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it."

Psalm 51:5  Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

Psalm 119:133  Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me.

John 8:34  Jesus replied, "Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin."

 

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