1 What, then, shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin live any longer 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 So we were buried with him through baptism into death, that 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 been planted together in the likeness of his death, we will also be in the likeness of his resurrection;
6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, so that we should no longer serve sin.
7 For he who has died has been justified from sin.
8 And if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him,
9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died to sin once for all; but in that he lives, he lives to God.
11 So also you, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Do not, then, let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey it in its lusts;
13 neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
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 to obey, you are servants of the one you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
17 But thanks be to God that, though you were servants of sin, you obeyed from the heart the form of teaching to which you were delivered.
18 And having been freed from sin, you became servants 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 uncleanness and to lawlessness, resulting in lawlessness, so now present your members as servants to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.
20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to 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, having been freed from sin and having become servants to God, you have your fruit for 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.