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Only A Sinner Saved By Grace???

helplessly yielding to sin’s temptations before

he was empowered by the Spirit of Christ.

But after conversion, Paul absolutely did

not live a life that was at the mercy of his

sinful nature. If he did, why would he

instruct Christians to follow him as he

followed Christ? Paul said to the Corinthian

believers in 1 Corinthians 11:1, “Be ye

followers of me, even as I also am of Christ,”

and in 1 Thessalonians 2:10, he said to the

Thessalonian believers, “Ye are witnesses,

and God also, how holily and justly and

unblameably we behaved ourselves among

you that believe.” Again, it’s evident from

these verses that, after Paul was saved, he

was not just a helpless “sinner saved by

grace.”

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