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 into 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.