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Romans 6
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1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? CCC · Fathers
4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. 1 CCC · Fathers
5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection; CCC
6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin. CCC
7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. CCC · Fathers
8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, CCC
9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him! CCC · Fathers
10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God. CCC
11 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. CCC
12 Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. CCC · Fathers
13 Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. Fathers
14 For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!
16 Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
17 But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered. CCC
18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification. CCC
20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22 But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life. CCC
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. CCC · Fathers
1 What shall we say, then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid! For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?
3 Know you not that all we who are baptized in Christ Jesus are baptized in his death? CCC · Fathers
4 For we are buried together with him by baptism into death: that, as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life. 1 CCC · Fathers
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. CCC
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer. CCC
7 For he that is dead is justified from sin. CCC · Fathers
8 Now, if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also together with Christ. CCC
9 Knowing that Christ, rising again from the dead, dieth now no more. Death shall no more have dominion over him. CCC · Fathers
10 For in that he died to sin, he died once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. CCC
11 So do you also reckon that you are dead to sin, but alive unto God, in Christ Jesus our Lord. CCC
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof. CCC · Fathers
13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of iniquity unto sin: but present yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead; and your members as instruments of justice unto God. Fathers
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid!
16 Know you not that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death or of obedience unto justice.
17 But thanks be to God, that you were the servants of sin but have obeyed from the heart unto that form of doctrine into which you have been delivered. CCC
18 Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice.
19 I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity: so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification. CCC
20 For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice.
21 What fruit therefore had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.
22 But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting. CCC
23 For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting in Christ Jesus our Lord. CCC · Fathers
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- CCC 1006 “It is in regard to death that man's condition is most shrouded in doubt." In a sense bodily death is natural, but…”
- CCC 1227 “According to the Apostle Paul, the believer enters through Baptism into communion with Christ's death, is buried with him, and rises with…”
“that like as Christ rose from the dead, so should we also walk in newness of life.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XVI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 537 “Through Baptism the Christian is sacramentally assimilated to Jesus, who in his own baptism anticipates his death and resurrection. the Christian must…”
- CCC 628 “Baptism, the original and full sign of which is immersion, efficaciously signifies the descent into the tomb by the Christian who dies…”
- CCC 648 “Christ's Resurrection is an object of faith in that it is a transcendent intervention of God himself in creation and history. In…”
- CCC 730 “At last Jesus' hour arrives: he commends his spirit into the Father's hands 118 at the very moment when by his death…”
- CCC 790 “Believers who respond to God's word and become members of Christ's Body, become intimately united with him: "In that body the life…”
- CCC 977 “Our Lord tied the forgiveness of sins to faith and Baptism: "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the…”
“that like as Christ rose from the dead, so should we also walk in newness of life.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XVI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 790 “Believers who respond to God's word and become members of Christ's Body, become intimately united with him: "In that body the life…”
- CCC 1006 “It is in regard to death that man's condition is most shrouded in doubt." In a sense bodily death is natural, but…”
- CCC 2565 “In the New Covenant, prayer is the living relationship of the children of God with their Father who is good beyond measure,…”
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- CCC 1006 “It is in regard to death that man's condition is most shrouded in doubt." In a sense bodily death is natural, but…”
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- CCC 1006 “It is in regard to death that man's condition is most shrouded in doubt." In a sense bodily death is natural, but…”
“But He set a bound to his [state of] sin, by interposing death, and thus causing sin to cease,”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XXIII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 1006 “It is in regard to death that man's condition is most shrouded in doubt." In a sense bodily death is natural, but…”
- CCC 1987 “The grace of the Holy Spirit has the power to justify us, that is, to cleanse us from our sins and to…”
“… up into heaven, as he himself [Paul] says: "But at the same time, [it, is] Christ [that] died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God." And again, "Knowing that Christ, rising from the dead, dieth no more:”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XVI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 2819 “The kingdom of God (is) righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit." The end-time in which we live is the…”
“… Romans: "Let not sin, therefore, reign in your mortal body, to be under its control: neither yield ye your members instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but yield yourselves to God, as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XIV. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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“… Romans: "Let not sin, therefore, reign in your mortal body, to be under its control: neither yield ye your members instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but yield yourselves to God, as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XIV. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 197 “As on the day of our Baptism, when our whole life was entrusted to the "standard of teaching", let us embrace the…”
- CCC 1237 “Since Baptism signifies liberation from sin and from its instigator the devil, one or more exorcisms are pronounced over the candidate. the…”
- CCC 1733 “The more one does what is good, the freer one becomes. There is no true freedom except in the service of what…”
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- CCC 1995 “The Holy Spirit is the master of the interior life. By giving birth to the "inner man," justification entails the sanctification of…”
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- CCC 1995 “The Holy Spirit is the master of the interior life. By giving birth to the "inner man," justification entails the sanctification of…”
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- CCC 1006 “It is in regard to death that man's condition is most shrouded in doubt." In a sense bodily death is natural, but…”
- CCC 1008 “Death is a consequence of sin. the Church's Magisterium, as authentic interpreter of the affirmations of Scripture and Tradition, teaches that death…”
“are deprived of His gift, which is eternal life;”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XIX. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
- Romans 6:34 in modern BiblesCCC 1214
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- CCC 1214 “This sacrament is called Baptism, after the central rite by which it is carried out: to baptize (Greek baptizein) means to "plunge"…”