Romans 6

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

²By no means! We who died to sin, how shall we still live in it?

³Or are you ignorant that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

⁴We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we might walk in newness of life.

⁵For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.

⁶knowing this: that our old self was crucified with him, so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be enslaved to sin.

⁷For the one who has died is justified from sin.

⁸Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him,

⁹knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, no longer dies; death no longer lords it over him.

¹⁰For the death he died he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives he lives to God.

¹¹So also you, reckon yourselves dead indeed to sin but living to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹²Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, so as to obey it in its desires.

¹³and do not go on presenting your members as weapons of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness to God.

¹⁴For sin will not lord it over you; for you are not under law but under grace.

¹⁵What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

¹⁶Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of him whom you obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

¹⁷But thanks be to God that you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart the standard of teaching to which you were handed over,

¹⁸And having been set free from sin, you were enslaved to righteousness.

¹⁹I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness unto sanctification.

²⁰For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

²¹What fruit therefore were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

²²But now, having been freed from sin and having become enslaved to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

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