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were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were
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heart that form of doctrine to which you were free in regard to righteousness. What fruit
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delivered. And having been set free from sin, did you have then in the things of which you
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you became slaves of righteousness. I speak are now ashamed? For the end of those things
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in human terms because of the weakness of is death. But now having been set free from
your flesh. For just as you presented your sin, and having become slaves of God, you
members as slaves of uncleanness, and of law- have your fruit to holiness, and the end, ever-
lessness leading to more lawlessness, so now lasting life. For the wages of sin is death, but
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present your members as slaves of righteous- the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
ness for holiness. Lord.
DAY 4: In verses such as Romans 5:12 and 6:23, to what kind of death is Paul referring?
The word “death”has three distinct manifestations in biblical terminology:1) spiritual death or
separation from God (Eph.1:1,2,4,18); 2) physical death (Heb.9:27); and 3) eternal death (also called
the second death),which includes not only eternal separation from God,but eternal torment in the
lake of fire (Rev. 20:11–15).
When sin entered the human race through Adam, all these aspects of death came with it.
Adam was not originally subject to death; but through his sin, death became a grim certainty for
him and his posterity.The “death”referred to in Romans 6:23 includes the first and third descriptions
above. That verse establishes two inexorable absolutes: 1) spiritual death and eternal separation
from God make up the paycheck for every person’s slavery to sin;and 2) eternal life is a free gift God
gives undeserving sinners who believe in His Son (Eph. 2:8,9).

going to and fro on the earth, and from walk-
AUGUST 5 ing back and forth on it.”
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Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you
considered My servant Job, that there is none
like him on the earth, a blameless and upright
Job 1:1–2:13
man, one who fears God and shuns evil?”
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose 9 So Satan answered the LORD and said, “Does
1 name was Job; and that man was blameless Job fear God for nothing? Have You not made
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and upright, and one who feared God and a hedge around him, around his household, and
shunned evil. And seven sons and three around all that he has on every side? You have
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daughters were born to him. Also, his pos- blessed the work of his hands, and his posses-
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sessions were seven thousand sheep, three sions have increased in the land. But now,
thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has,
five hundred female donkeys, and a very large and he will surely curse You to Your face!”
household, so that this man was the greatest 12 And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, all
of all the people of the East. that he has is in your power; only do not lay a
4 And his sons would go and feast in their hand on his person.”
houses, each on his appointed day, and would So Satan went out from the presence of the
send and invite their three sisters to eat and LORD.
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drink with them. So it was, when the days of 13 Now there was a day when his sons and
feasting had run their course, that Job would daughters were eating and drinking wine in
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send and sanctify them, and he would rise their oldest brother’s house; and a messen-
early in the morning and offer burnt offerings ger came to Job and said, “The oxen were
according to the number of them all. For Job plowing and the donkeys feeding beside
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said, “It may be that my sons have sinned and them, when the Sabeans raided them and
cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did reg- took them away—indeed they have killed the
ularly. servants with the edge of the sword; and I
6 Now there was a day when the sons of God alone have escaped to tell you!”
came to present themselves before the LORD, 16 While he was still speaking, another also
and Satan also came among them. And the came and said, “The fire of God fell from heav-
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LORD said to Satan, “From where do you en and burned up the sheep and the servants,
come?” and consumed them; and I alone have escaped
So Satan answered the LORD and said, “From to tell you!”
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