I'm sorry you feel yourself unworthy of that holy Root.
He was trying to get them to turn from all sin.
You can find it in Rom 6:6-7, and Rom 8:1-4,9-11, 1 Cor 1:9, and 1 Cor 2:6, and 2 Cor 5:21, and Gal 5:24, and Eph 2:1-3, and 2 Tim 3:17, and Titus 1:15-16, and lots of other places too.
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