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?

Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

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 do you not know that as many of us as 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.

Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised 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 united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be 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 with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.

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

For he who has died has been freed from sin.

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

Now 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, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has 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 to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to 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 you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus 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.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

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.

And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to 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 you are not under law but under grace. From Slaves of Sin to Slaves of God

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? Certainly not!

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)?

Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to 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 though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you 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 having been set free from sin, you became slaves 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 in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.

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

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to 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 did you have then in the things of which you 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 having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to 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 in Christ Jesus our Lord.