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

¶ What 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?

No, in no wise. How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein?

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

Know ye not that all of us that are baptized into Jesus the Christ are 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.

For we are buried with him by baptism into death, that just as the Christ was raised up from the dead to the glory of the Father, likewise we also 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;

For if we have been planted together in 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 with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

knowing this: that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that we should not serve sin any longer.

7 F or he who has died has been freed from sin.

For he that is dead is justified from sin.

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

Now if we die with the Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,

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

knowing that the Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more; death has no more 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.

For he that is dead died unto sin once, and he that lives, lives unto God.

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

Likewise also reckon yourselves to be truly dead unto sin, but alive unto 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.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

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.

Neither present your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but present yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

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

So that sin shall have no dominion over you; for ye are not under the 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 the law, but under grace? No, in no wise.

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?

Or know ye not that to whom ye present yourselves slaves to obey, his slaves ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death or of the obedience unto 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.

Thank God that, although ye were the slaves of sin, ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine unto which ye are delivered;

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

and freed from sin, ye are become the slaves 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.

I speak a human thing because of the weakness of our flesh: that as ye presented your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity unto iniquity, likewise now present your members to serve righteousness unto holiness.

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

For being previously the slaves of sin, now ye have been made the slaves of 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.

What fruit had ye then in those things of which ye 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.

But now freed from sin and made slaves to God, ye have as your fruit sanctification and as the end, everlasting 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 grace of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.