[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.