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

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

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

4 W e 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, we will also be part of his resurrection;

6 k nowing 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 has been freed from sin.

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

9 k nowing 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 one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

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

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

13 A lso, 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 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!

16 D on’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, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

18 B eing made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

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

21 W hat 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, 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.