What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died. ¹ 

But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.

Those guilty of sin ¹  must be rebuked ²  before all, ³  as a warning to the rest. ⁴ 

You know ¹  that such a person is twisted by sin ²  and is conscious of it himself. ³ 

“Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in.

Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed ¹  in your struggle against sin.

He ¹  committed no sin nor was deceit found in his mouth. ² 

We know that ¹  our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, ²  so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

For God achieved what the law could not do because ¹  it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them ¹  to sin.

(My little children, ¹  I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. ² ) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate ³  with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous One, ⁴ 

Everyone who has been fathered ¹  by God does not practice sin, ²  because ³  God’s ⁴  seed ⁵  resides in him, and thus ⁶  he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God.

Then many will be led into sin, ¹  and they will betray one another and hate one another.

But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, but is guilty of an eternal sin” ¹ 

Now the law came in ¹  so that the transgression ²  may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.