1 W hat shall we say ? Are we to remain in sin in order that God’s grace (favor and mercy) may multiply and overflow?

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

2 C ertainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?

God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?

3 A re you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

4 W e were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious of the Father, so we too might live and behave in newness of life.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

5 F or if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be His resurrection.

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection;

6 W e know that our old (unrenewed) self was nailed to the cross with Him in order that body of sin might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be the slaves of sin.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;

7 F or when a man dies, he is freed (loosed, delivered) from sin.

for he that hath died is justified from sin.

8 N ow if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;

9 B ecause we know that Christ (the Anointed One), being once raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has power over Him.

knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death no more hath dominion over him.

10 F or by the death He died, He died to sin once for all; and the life that He lives, He is living to God.

For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

11 E ven so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broken, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.

12 L et not sin therefore rule as king in your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies, to make you yield to its cravings and be subject to its lusts and evil passions.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:

13 D o not continue offering or yielding your bodily members '> faculties] to sin as instruments (tools) of wickedness. But offer and yield yourselves to God as though you have been raised from the dead to life, and your bodily members '> faculties] to God, presenting them as implements of righteousness.

neither present your members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

14 F or sin shall not exert dominion over you, since now you are not under Law, but under grace.

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.

15 W hat then ? Shall we sin because we live not under Law but under God’s favor and mercy? Certainly not!

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.

16 D o you not know that if you continually surrender yourselves to anyone to do his will, you are the slaves of him whom you obey, whether that be to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience which leads to righteousness (right doing and right standing with God)?

Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

17 B ut thank God, though you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient with all your heart to the standard of teaching in which you were instructed and to which you were committed.

But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;

18 A nd having been set free from sin, you have become the servants of righteousness (of conformity to the divine will in thought, purpose, and action).

and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.

19 I am speaking in familiar human terms because of your natural limitations. For as you yielded your bodily members '> faculties] as servants to impurity and ever increasing lawlessness, so now yield your bodily members '> faculties] once for all as servants to righteousness (right being and doing) to sanctification.

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness unto sanctification.

20 F or when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.

21 B ut then what benefit (return) did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

22 B ut now since you have been set free from sin and have become the slaves of God, you have your present reward in holiness and its end is eternal life.

But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.

23 F or the wages which sin pays is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through (in union with) Jesus Christ our Lord.

For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.