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1 What
shall we say
then? Shall we
continue in sin,
that grace may
abound?
2 May it
never be! We
who died to sin,
how could we
live in it
any longer?
3 Or don’t
you know that all
of us who
were baptized into
Christ Jesus
were baptized into
his death?
4 We
were buried
therefore with him
through baptism into
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 For
if we have
become united with
him in the
likeness of his
death, we will
also be part
of his resurrection;
6 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 For
he who has died has
been freed from sin.
8 But
if we died with
Christ, we believe
that we will
also live with
him,
9 knowing
that Christ, being
raised from the
dead, dies no more.
Death no longer
has dominion over
him!
10 For
the death that he
died, he died
to sin one time;
but the life
that he lives,
he lives to
God.
11 Thus
consider yourselves
also to be
dead to sin, but
alive to God
in Christ Jesus
our Lord.
12 Therefore don’t
let sin reign in
your mortal body,
that you should
obey it in
its lusts.
13 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 For sin
will not have
dominion over you,
for you are
not under law,
but under grace.
15 What
then? Shall we sin
because we are
not under law
but under grace?
May it never
be!
16 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 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 Being
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 For
when you were
servants of sin,
you were free
from righteousness.
21 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 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 For
the wages of sin
is death, but
the free gift
of God is eternal
life in Christ
Jesus our Lord.