Chiasm
Romans 06:12–23
Romans 06:12–233 matched frames
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
- A' 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
- A 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
- B 17-18 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
- B' 20-22 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
- A' 23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.