King James Version

1 What shall we say then? Should we continue in sin so that Grace may abound? 2 May it never be; those who died to sin, how shall we still live in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be united with him in the likeness of his resurrection. 6 Knowing this, that our old man was crucified, so that the body of sin might be made useless, that we should no longer serve sin. 7 For the one who has died is justified from sin. 8 If we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, no longer dies; death no longer has dominion over him. 10 For the one who died, died to sin once for all; but the one who lives, lives to God. 11 Likewise, you also consider yourselves to be dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body to obey its desires. 13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as those 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 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as servants for obedience, you are slaves to whom you obey, either of sin to death or of obedience to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that you were slaves of sin, and you obeyed from the heart the form of teaching to which you were delivered. 18 And having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness. 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh; for just as you presented your members as servants to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as servants to righteousness leading to Sanctification. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free regarding righteousness. 21 What fruit then did you have at that time from those things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those is death. 22 But now, having been freed from sin and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit for Sanctification, and the end is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.