| 1 | What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? |
| 2 | God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein? |
| 3 | Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? |
| 4 | We were buried therefore with him through baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. |
| 5 | For if we have become united with [him] in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of his resurrection; |
| 6 | knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin; |
| 7 | for he that hath died is justified from sin. |
| 8 | But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him; |
| 9 | knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death no more hath dominion over him. |
| 10 | For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God. |
| 11 | Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus. |
| 12 | Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof: |
| 13 | neither present your members unto sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God. |
| 14 | For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace. |
| 15 | What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid. |
| 16 | Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves [as] servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? |
| 17 | But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered; |
| 18 | and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness. |
| 19 | I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members [as] servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members [as] servants to righteousness unto sanctification. |
| 20 | For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness. |
| 21 | What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. |
| 22 | But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life. |
| 23 | For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. |