Married to Christ
Romans 7:4: Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.
Truth Illustrated
Romans 7:1–3: Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. …
Everlasting Life
Romans 6:22–23: But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Bearing More Fruit
Romans 6:20–21: For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Be Holy
Romans 6:19: I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.
Set Free from Sin
Romans 6:18: And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
Heart to Obey
Romans 6:17: But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.
Your Choice
Romans 6:16: 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?
Grace Produces Obedience
Romans 6:15: What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!
Let Grace Dominate
Romans 6:14: For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.