1 W hat shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?

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

2 M ay it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

3 O r do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?

Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

4 T herefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just 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, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,

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

6 k nowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;

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

7 f or he who has died is freed 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,

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

9 k nowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.

knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!

10 F or the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

11 E ven so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

12 T herefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,

Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

13 a nd do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

14 F or sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

15 W hat then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

16 D o you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?

Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

17 B ut thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed,

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

18 a nd having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

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

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

21 T herefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

22 B ut now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.

But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of 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.

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