² Absolutely not!^(A) How can we who died to sin^(B) still live in it?

¹¹ So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin^(A) but alive to God in Christ Jesus.^[a]

¹² instructing us to deny godlessness^(A) and worldly lusts^(B) and to live in a sensible, righteous,^(C) and godly^(D) way in the present age,