¹ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may abound?

² Let it not be! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

³ Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?

⁴ Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father; even so we also should walk in newness of life.

⁵ For if we have been joined together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection;

⁶ knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin.

⁷ For he who died has been justified from sin.

⁸ But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

⁹ knowing that when Christ was raised from the dead, He dies no more; death no longer has dominion over Him.

¹⁰ For in that He died, He died to sin once; but in that He lives, He lives to God.

¹¹ Likewise count yourselves also to be truly dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹² Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

¹³ Do not yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God, as one alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

¹⁴ For sin shall 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? Let it not be!

¹⁶ Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to him whom you obey; whether it is of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness.

¹⁷ But thanks be to our God that you were the slaves of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.

¹⁸ Then being made free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness.

¹⁹ I speak in the manner of men because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you have yielded your members as slaves to uncleanness, and to lawless act unto lawless act, even so now yield your members as slaves to righteousness unto holiness.

²⁰ For when you were the slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.

²¹ What fruit did you have then in those 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 slaves to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.

²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.