Sermon Tone Analysis

12 Let not gsin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.

13 hDo not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but ipresent yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.

14 For jsin kwill have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body:

To make you obey its passions

Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness

But present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life

And your members to God as instruments for righteousness

For sin will have no dominion over you

Since you are not under law but under grace.

English Standard Version (Chapter 6)

15 What then?

lAre we to sin mbecause we are not under law but under grace?

By no means!

16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves nto anyone as obedient slaves,3 you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

What then:

Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace

By no means

Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves,

You are slaves of the one whom you obey

Either of sin

Which leads to death

Or of obedience

Which leads to righteousness

17 But othanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the pstandard of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and, qhaving been set free from sin, rhave become slaves of righteousness.

19 sI am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations.

For tjust as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members uas slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

But thanks be to God:

That you who were once slaves of sin

Have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed

having been set free from sin,

have become slaves of righteousness

I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations

For just as you once presented your members as slaves

To impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness

So now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

20 vFor when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

21 wBut what fruit were you getting at that time from the things xof which you are now ashamed?

yFor the end of those things is death.

22 But now that you zhave been set free from sin and ahave become slaves of God, bthe fruit you get leads to sanctification and

For when you were slaves of sin:

You were free in regard to righteousness

But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed

For the end of those things is death

But now that you have been:

Set free from sin

And have become slaves of God

The fruit you get leads to sanctification and