What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! —Romans 6:15.
This matching verse to Romans 6:1-2 serves as a great reminder that sin is no longer our master and no longer our choice (Romans 6:14). We choose to live for God with every fiber of our being and loathe the life of sin that once held us in bondage to defeat. So, with the Holy Spirit’s power at work in us, our lives are being transformed to become like Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 3:18).
Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. —Romans 13:1.
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy—1 Peter 2:10. Excluded. Rejected.
I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his
