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Romans 6:19 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" I 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 righteousness for sanctification. "
Romans 6:19
Verse in Context
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17 But 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.
18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
19 I 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 righteousness for sanctification.
20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
21 What 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.
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Romans 6:1
"What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?"
Romans 6:2
"May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?"
Romans 6:3
"Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?"
Romans 6:4
"We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life."
Romans 6:5
"For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;"
Romans 6:6
"knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin."
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