- Romans 6:13-15
And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!
- Galatians 5:18-21
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
- Romans 6:18
And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
- Romans 7:14
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Related Scriptures
- 1 John 3:4
Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
- Romans 6:1-2
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?
- Ephesians 2:10
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
- Jeremiah 31:33
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD
"If you love Me, keep My commandments.
If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.
Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.
Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters.
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.
So He said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."
But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.