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?

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

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

Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were 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.

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

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part 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 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 hath died hath been set free from the sin.

For he who has died has been freed from sin.

8 A nd if we died with Christ, we believe that we also shall 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 up out of the dead, doth no more die, death over him hath no more lordship;

knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has 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 the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

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

Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to 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 don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

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;

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

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

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?

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 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;

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 the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants 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 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 ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness,

For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to 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 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 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, 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 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 free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.