2 [6:12]Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to obey its desires, [6:13]neither present your members as instruments of wickedness to sin, but present yourselves to God as living from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. [6:14]For sin shall not have a Lordship over you; for you are not under the law but under the grace. 3 [6:15]What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under the grace? By no means. [6:16]Know you not that to whom you present yourselves servants for obedience, his servants you are whom you obey, whether of sin in death or of obedience in righteousness? [6:17]But thanks be to God that you were servants of sin, but obeyed from the heart the form of teaching in which you were instructed, [6:18]and having become free from sin you served righteousness. [6:19]I speak after the manner of men on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as you presented your members servants to impurity and to wickedness in wickedness, so now present your members servants to righteousness in sanctification. [6:20]For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. [6:21]What fruit had you therefore then in things of which you are now ashamed? for the end of them is death. [6:22]But now having been made free from sin and made servants to God, you have your fruit in sanctification, and the end eternal life. [6:23]For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life by Christ Jesus our Lord. CHAPTER V. THOSE IN CHRIST DEAD TO THE LAW, THE FLESH THE PRINCIPLE OF SIN, ITS DOMINION OVER THE MIND, ETC. 1 [7:1]ARE you ignorant, brothers, for I speak to them who understand law, that the law has authority over a man as long as he lives? [7:2]For a woman under a husband is bound by law to a living husband; but if the husband has died she is released from the law of the husband. [7:3]Therefore while the husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she is married to another man; but if the husband has died, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if married to another man. [7:4]So, my brothers, you have also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you should be married to another, to him that was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. [7:5]For when we were in the flesh, the sinful affections operated through the law in our members to bear fruit to death; [7:6]but now we are released from the law by which we were held having died, that we should serve [God] in newness of spirit, not in the old age of a writing. 2 [7:7]What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means. On the contrary I knew not sin except through the law; for I had not known inordinate desire, unless the law had said, You shall not desire inordinately. [7:8]But Sin having taken occasion through the commandment wrought in me every inordinate desire; for without the law sin was dead.