Yield to sin
Romans 6:14
14 For sin shall not be your master, because you are
not under law, but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under
law but under grace? By no means!
16 Don't you know that when you offer yourselves
to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you
obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience,
which leads to righteousness?
17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be
slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were
entrusted.
18 You have been set free from sin and have become
slaves to righteousness.
19 I put this in human terms because you are weak in
your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in
slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in
slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the
control of righteousness.
21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the
things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!
22 But now that you have been set free from sin and
have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the
result is eternal life.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God
is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Sow to the flesh to the end
Hebrews 3:6
But Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. And
we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast.
Hebrews 3:12-14
12 See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful,
unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is
called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.
14 We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly
till the end the confidence we had at first.
We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and
secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,
Sow to the flesh
Hebrews 6:7-8
7 Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and
that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the
blessing of God.
8 But land that produces thorns and thistles is
worthless and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned.
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