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

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

let it not be! we who died to the sin -- how shall we still live 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?

are ye ignorant that we, as many as were baptized to Christ Jesus, to his death were baptized?

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 together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.

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 planted together to the likeness of his death, also we shall be of the rising again;

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.

this knowing, that our old man was crucified with, that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;

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

for he who hath died hath been set free from the sin.

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

And if we died with Christ, we believe that we also shall 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 up out of the dead, doth no more die, death over him hath no more lordship;

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, to the sin he died once, and in that he liveth, he liveth 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.

so also ye, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, and living to God in 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 then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;

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 ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members 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 over you shall not have lordship, 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? let it not be!

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)?

have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience 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.

and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and -- were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up;

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 freed from the sin, ye became servants to the 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.

In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness -- to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness -- to sanctification,

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

for when ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the 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, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those 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.

And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit -- to sanctification, and the end life age-during;

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 the sin death, and the gift of God life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.