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Rom.6:1 Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more of his wonderful grace? 2 Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it?
(Living English Bible 2007)

How has the power of sin been broken? Can mankind break the power of sinning by obeying the laws, and commandments of God? No! Mankind cannot break the power of sinning by obeying any laws of the flesh, what are the laws of our flesh? They are laws that point up and convict us of being a sinner born from Adam the common father of the human race.

Romans 8:12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

John 7:19 Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

Galatians 5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
So what are humans to do? If they are born sinners and cannot deliver themselves by works of law, what is a work of law? A work of law is gaining a reward for meeting the requirements of the law through a good work, but if the law only condemns us as a sinner, not a non-sinner than works of laws are pointless we cannot be saved by them.

Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"{Deuteronomy 21:23}

Subsequently, the power of sin must be broken by God because all men are sinners and they have no power within their own will to stop sinning by God's righteous laws. But how has God broken the power of sin over us? Here than is the point of Paul's argument with those putting faith in the very power of sin, the Law. How can the law be the power behind sin? It is because where there is no law neither is there sin. Yes, the power of God's law is to point out sin in us proving we are a sinner from Adam.

1 Corinthians 15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
Romans 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
Romans 5:13 For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

Hence without the law conviction we are not a sinner. In other words, if a righteous man could fulfill the laws of God for us and than God imputed this man righteousness too us we would be free from the conviction of sin of God's law.
This legal action on God's part would be undeserved kindness, a priceless gift of His own love towards us. We could never deliver ourselves by any means, but by the gift of God's love, Christ Jesus. Moreover, we would be accounted dead to sin, how? Because Christ Jesus removed the law judging us as a sinner by his perfect righteous blood. But the question the legal mind wants to know, and pounds like a drum over and over again by its legal judgmental mind is, how can we not sin if we are sinners? Moreover, with the law removed, we are still a sinners, are we not? How can we be without law, which punishes sin?

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