The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Everyone who practices sin ¹  also practices lawlessness; ²  indeed, ³  sin is lawlessness.

All unrighteousness ¹  is sin, but there is sin not resulting in death. ² 

concerning sin, because ¹  they do not believe in me; ² 

(For someone who has died has been freed from sin.) ¹ 

Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, ¹  everyone who practices ²  sin is a slave ³  of sin.

If you sin against your brothers or sisters ¹  in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. ¹  But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.

So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people ¹  because ²  all sinned –

for before the law was given, ¹  sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin ²  when there is no law.

But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. ¹  For apart from the law, sin is dead.

God ¹  made the one who did not know sin ²  to be sin for us, so that in him ³  we would become the righteousness of God.

And when he ¹  comes, he will prove the world wrong ²  concerning sin and ³  righteousness and ⁴  judgment –

For I see that you are bitterly envious ¹  and in bondage to sin.”

blessed is the one ¹  against whom the Lord will never count ²  sin.” ³ 

What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase?

Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

So you too consider yourselves ¹  dead to sin, but ²  alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,