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Saturday, October 12, 2013

If We Died With Christ (Romans 6:8-13) God's Word and Living Bible Translations

GOD'S WORD TRANSLATION
8   If we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 
9   We know that Christ, who was brought back to life, will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him. 
10  When he died, he died once and for all to sin’s power. But now he lives, and he lives for God. 
11  So consider yourselves dead to sin’s power but living for God in the power Christ Jesus gives you.
12  Therefore, never let sin rule your physical body so that you obey its desires. 
13  Never offer any part of your body to sin’s power. No part of your body should ever be used to do any ungodly thing. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have come back from death and are now alive. Offer all the parts of your body to God. Use them to do everything that God approves of.

LIVING BIBLE TRANSLATION 
8   And since your old sin-loving nature “died” with Christ, we know that you will share his new life. 
9   Christ rose from the dead and will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him. 
10  He died once for all to end sin’s power, but now he lives forever in unbroken fellowship with God. 
11  So look upon your old sin nature as dead and unresponsive to sin, and instead be alive to God, alert to him, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12  Do not let sin control your puny body any longer; do not give in to its sinful desires. 13 Do not let any part of your bodies become tools of wickedness, to be used for sinning; but give yourselves completely to God—every part of you—for you are back from death and you want to be tools in the hands of God, to be used for his good purposes. 

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