Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.

So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.

But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.

if it is exhortation, he must exhort; if it is contributing, he must do so with sincerity; if it is leadership, he must do so with diligence; if it is showing mercy, he must do so with cheerfulness.

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,

For we know that the law is spiritual – but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

For the creation was subjected to futility – not willingly but because of God who subjected it – in hope

that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

If it is service, he must serve; if it is teaching, he must teach;

So the person who resists such authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will incur judgment

For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned –

But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever! Amen.

Now may the God of endurance and comfort give you unity with one another in accordance with Christ Jesus,