1 W hat shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

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

3 O r 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 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 united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection;

6 k nowing 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 he that hath died is justified from sin.

8 B ut if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;

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

10 F or the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

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

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

13 n either 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 have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.

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

16 K now 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 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 being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.

19 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 ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.

21 W hat 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 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 of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.