That means you must not give sin a vote in the way you conduct your lives. Don’t give it the time of day. Don’t even run little errands that are connected with that old way of life. Throw yourselves wholeheartedly and full-time—remember, you’ve been raised from the dead!—into God’s way of doing things. Sin can’t tell you how to live. After all, you’re not living under that old tyranny any longer. You’re living in the freedom of God. So, since we’re out from under the old tyranny, does that mean we can live any old way we want? Since we’re free in the freedom of God, can we do anything that comes to mind? Hardly. You know well enough from your own experience that there are some acts of so-called freedom that destroy freedom. Offer yourselves to sin, for instance, and it’s your last free act. But offer yourselves to the ways of God and the freedom never quits. All your lives you’ve let sin tell you what to do. But thank God you’ve started listening to a new master, one whose commands set you free to live openly in his freedom!
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But now that you’ve found you don’t have to listen to sin tell you what to do, and have discovered the delight of listening to God telling you, what a surprise! A whole, healed, put-together life right now, with more and more of life on the way! Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death. But God’s gift is real life, eternal life, delivered by Jesus, our Master.
Compare All Versions: Romans 6:12-18, 22-23
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Do you ever find yourself behaving like a child or struggling to show mercy to those around you? If so, then you aren’t alone, and you are in the right place. These guided biblical meditations will help you learn to live a righteous life. A life lived with grace and being mindful of your actions. A life lived in this divine moment free from distractions trying to steal your attention.
Struggling with sin that seems impossible to overcome? This 3-day devotional reveals how transformation happens through Scripture meditation, yielding to God, and exercising your God-given authority over sin. Discover the freedom Christ died to give you.
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In this life, temptation is unavoidable. No matter how much you love Jesus, whether you’ve been following Him for a day or a lifetime, you will face temptation. That’s just a fact. So what do we do when it comes? Join Christitanityworks’ Berni Dymet in a new video devotional series to explore what temptation is and where it comes from – and how you can overcome it.
What do you think about sin? About salvation? About your life in Christ? In this devotional, Think Like a Roman, we are renewing our minds through the book of Romans. What we believe is essential to the way we live, to our growth, our walk with Christ, and our future in Christ. Our thoughts determine our beliefs, our beliefs determine our actions. Over the next four days, join us as we dive into our understanding of doctrine relating to sin, salvation, and freedom in Christ.
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