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NASB | Romans 6:12 ¶ Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 6:12 ¶ Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts and passions. |
Subject: Can we live life without sinning? |
Bible Note: Greetings, In the spirit of recognizing God's supreme sovereignty, not necessarily exclusively Calvanistic, but so be it... Your assertion that Salvation changes our ability to willfully abstain from sin, since we are no longer slaves to sin, would apparently be contradicted by Romans 7:18-19 "For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. It sounds as if Paul is no more able to resist sin with Salvation than as a slave to sin. The difference between conditions prior to salvation and after salvation, seems to be more a matter of switching from being slaves to sin, to slaves to righteousness, or slaves to God. Wouldn't this mean that abstaining from sin would be a result of the conditions of our service to God, as his slave? Isn't this really the process of sanctification which is a work of God? Perhaps you have another reference to support the assertion that what is meant in Romans 6, is that we are able to willfully resist sin? Respectfully, David |