² By no means! We are those who have died to sin;^(A) how can we live in it any longer?

¹⁴ For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.^(A)

²⁰ Since you died with Christ^(A) to the elemental spiritual forces of this world,^(B) why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules:^(C)