Let there be fear in your hearts, and do no sin; have bitter feelings on your bed, but make no sound. (Selah.)
<To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.> Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.
For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me.
Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.
Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.
Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,
For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.
For no sin of mine they go quickly and get themselves ready; be awake and come to my help, and see.
But he, being full of pity, has forgiveness for sin, and does not put an end to man: frequently turning back his wrath, and not being violently angry.
For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.
The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. (Selah.)
Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing.
What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?
And he has made their evil designs come back on themselves, cutting them off in their sin; the Lord our God will put an end to them.
You gave them an answer, O Lord our God; you took away their sin, though you gave them punishment for their wrongdoing.
But he who is in doubt is judged if he takes food, because he does it not in faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.
Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;
Happy is the man against whom no sin is recorded by the Lord.
For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:
Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken.
And the free giving has not the same effect as the sin of one: for the effect of one man's sin was punishment by the decision of God, but the free giving had power to give righteousness to wrongdoers in great number.
And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:
That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace?
For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God.
Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.
For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;
And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.
For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.
What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.
Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.
But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;
And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.
In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?
When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.
But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.
For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.
Because he who is dead is free from sin.
For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.
Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.
For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.
So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.
But if I do what I have no mind to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.
But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.
I give praise to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I am a servant to the law of God, but with my flesh to the law of sin.
What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.
But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.
And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;
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