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

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

2 l et it not be! we who died to the sin -- how shall we still live in it?

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

3 a re ye ignorant that we, as many as were baptized to Christ Jesus, to his death were baptized?

Know ye not that all of us that are baptized into Jesus the Christ are baptized into his death?

4 w e 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.

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

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 t his 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;

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 hath died hath been set free from the sin.

For he that is dead is justified from sin.

8 A nd if we died with Christ, we believe that we also shall live with him,

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

9 k nowing that Christ, having been raised up out of the dead, doth no more die, death over him hath no more lordship;

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

10 f or in that he died, to the sin he died once, and in that he liveth, he liveth to God;

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

11 s o also ye, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, and living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.

Likewise also reckon yourselves to be truly dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ, Jesus, our Lord.

12 L et not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;

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

13 n either 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;

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 over you shall not have lordship, for ye 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? let it not be!

What then? shall we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? No, in no wise.

16 h ave 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?

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 a nd 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;

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 a nd having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.

and freed from sin, ye are become the slaves of righteousness.

19 I n 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,

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 ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness,

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

21 w hat fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those death.

What fruit had ye then in those things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

22 A nd 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;

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 the sin death, and the gift of God life age-during 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.