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14 Wrong ways will not be your masters. The law does not rule over you now, but God's loving kindness rules over you.

15 What then? The law does not rule over us now. God's loving kindness rules over us. So, shall we do wrong things? No, never!

16 If you give yourselves to be slaves and obey your master, you are not free. You are his slaves. Do you not know this: you may be slaves to wrong things? But you will not live for ever. Or you may be slaves to obey God. Then you will be made good people and live with him.

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14 For sin shall no longer be your master,(A) because you are not under the law,(B) but under grace.(C)

Slaves to Righteousness

15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace?(D) By no means! 16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey(E)—whether you are slaves to sin,(F) which leads to death,(G) or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?

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