Category Archives: sin

the salary of sin or the salary of God?

Romans 6:15-23 15 What should we conclude then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not! 16 Do you not know that if you make yourselves available as obedient slaves, you are slaves of … Continue reading

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making body parts available

Romans 6:9-14 9 We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer dominates him. 10 Because the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but … Continue reading

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baptism and the way out

Romans 6:1-8 1 What should we conclude then? Should we keep sinning so that grace may increase? 2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Or do you not know that those who … Continue reading

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all under sin

Romans 3:5-18 5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates that God is righteous, what should we conclude? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he? (I am speaking in human terms.) 6 Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God … Continue reading

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a depraved mind

Romans 1:26-32 26 For this reason God gave them over to shameful passions. Because their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones, 27 and likewise the men also abandoned normal relations with women and were inflamed in their … Continue reading

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a heart too heavy

Exodus 11:1-10 1 The LORD had told Moses, “Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Afterward he will send you away from here. When he sends you away, he will expel you, and it will … Continue reading

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The servant, whom you have brought among us

Genesis 39:11-20 11 But one day, when he went into the house to do his work, while none of the men of the house was there in the house, 12 she caught him by his cloak, saying, “Lie with me.” … Continue reading

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but he refused

Genesis 39:1-10 Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguards, an Egyptian, had bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there. 2 The LORD was with Joseph, … Continue reading

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stuck

Jeremiah 38 Two men were stuck in the mud.  Jeremiah was thrown into a well to die because his words were too offensive for sinners to bear.  Zedekiah was trapped in his own fear and stubbornness.  Both needed freedom, but … Continue reading

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a dark day

2 Kings 9 Who is responsible for the deaths of these kings, and Jezebel?  An inscription at Tel Dan claims that the king of Syria did it.  This passage says it was Jehu.  But the prediction – particularly of how … Continue reading

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