For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

(for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh

For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.

So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: “The one who does these things will live by them.”

For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written, “The righteous by faith will live.”

Or do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person as long as he lives?

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.

“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will give praise to God.”

and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.

So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.

Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God – which is your reasonable service.