² By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it?^(A)

²² But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the fruit you have leads to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.^(A)

¹⁹ For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ,^(A)

²² he has now reconciled^[a] in his fleshly body^[b] through death, so as to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him,^(A)