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. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer 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?

Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ 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.

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should 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 been planted together 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 is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

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

For he that is dead is freed from sin.

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

Now if we be dead 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 hath no more 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 in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in 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.

Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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 it in 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 yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are 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 the 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 the 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 yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to 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 God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

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).

Being then made free from sin, ye became the 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 have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

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

For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from 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 had ye then in those 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 holiness, and the end everlasting 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 gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.