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1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue to wander from the narrow way that leads to Life so that divine power for righteousness, holiness, and redemption may exist in abundance?
2 God forbid. How shall we, who are dead to sin, live any longer in sin?
3 Don't you know that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?
4 Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death so that, in the same way as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, in the same way we also walk in newness of genuine and absolute fullness of Life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of His Resurrection,
6 knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him so that the body, which wanders from the narrow way that leads to Life, becomes inoperative so that from now on we don't serve as slaves to wander from the narrow way that leads to Life.
7 For whoever is dead is freed from wandering from the narrow way.
8 Now if we are dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more, death has no more dominion over Him.
10 For, in that He died, He died to sin once, but in that He lives, He lives to God.
11 Likewise also realize that you are truly dead to sin but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12 Therefore, don't let sin rule over your mortal body, increasingly listening to its commands and obeying it in the body's desire for forbidden things.
13 Don't yield the members of your body as tools of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and yield the members of your bodies as tools of the Righteousness of God.
14 For sin shall not exercise control over you, for you are not under the law, but under divine power for righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
15 What then? Shall we wander from the path (that leads to Life) because we are not under the law but under divine power for righteousness, holiness, and redemption? God forbid.
16 Don't you know that to whom you yield yourselves as slaves into obedience, you are slaves to whatever you obey, whether wandering from the path of life to progress into death--or obedience to good counsel to progress into Righteousness?
17 Thank God for divine power for righteousness, holiness, and redemption.  You were totally in bondage as slaves of sin, but you have obeyed, from the innermost mind, that pattern which was given into you by teaching.
18 Being then made free from sin, you became the slaves of Righteousness.
19 I speak referring to the human because of the weakness of your bodies. For as you have yielded the members of your bodies as slaves to uncleanness and also from law-breaking into law-breaking, in the same way, now yield the members of your bodies as slaves to Righteousness moving toward Holiness.
20 For when you were the slaves of sin, you were free from Righteousness.
21 What fruit did you then have in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22 But now, being made free from sin and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit into Holiness and the end genuine and absolute fullness of Life of the Kingdom Age.
23 For the wages of sin (wandering from the narrow way that leads to Life) is death, but the charisma gift of God is genuine and absolute fullness of Life of the Kingdom Age through Jesus Christ our Lord.