19 I am using a human analogy[a](A) because of the weakness of your flesh.[b] For just as you offered the parts[c] of yourselves as slaves to moral impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 6:19 Lit I speak humanly; Paul is personifying sin and righteousness as slave masters.
  2. Romans 6:19 Or your human nature
  3. Romans 6:19 Or members

19 I am using an example from everyday life(A) because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness(B) leading to holiness.

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30 But it is from Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became God-given wisdom for us—our righteousness,(A) sanctification,(B) and redemption,(C)

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30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus,(A) who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness,(B) holiness(C) and redemption.(D)

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For this is God’s will,(A) your sanctification:(B) that you abstain(C) from sexual immorality,

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It is God’s will(A) that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;(B)

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15 But she will be saved through childbearing, if she continues[a] in faith, love, and holiness,(A) with good judgment.

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  1. 1 Timothy 2:15 Lit if they continue

15 But women[a] will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love(A) and holiness with propriety.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 2:15 Greek she

Warning against Rejecting God’s Grace

14 Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness(A)—without it no one will see the Lord.(B)

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Warning and Encouragement

14 Make every effort to live in peace with everyone(A) and to be holy;(B) without holiness no one will see the Lord.(C)

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according to the foreknowledge(A) of God the Father and set apart by the Spirit(B) for obedience(C) and for sprinkling with the blood(D) of Jesus Christ.

May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

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who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge(A) of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit,(B) to be obedient(C) to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood:(D)

Grace and peace be yours in abundance.(E)

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