ROMANS 6 [†]What shall we say then?  m Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2[†]By no means! How can  n we who died to sin still live in it? 3[†]Do you not know that all of us  o who have been baptized  p into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4[†]We were  q buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as  r Christ was raised from the dead by  s the glory of the Father, we too might walk in  t newness of life.

5For  u if we have been united with him in  v a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6[†]We know that  w our old self [1]  x was crucified with him in order that  y the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 7[†]For  z one who has died  a has been set free [2] from sin. 8Now  b if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9We know that  c Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again;  d death no longer has dominion over him. 10[†]For the death he died he died to sin,  e once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11[†]So you also must consider yourselves  f dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

12[†]Let not  g sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13 h Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but  i present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14[†]For  j sin  k will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

15[†]What then?  l Are we to sin  m because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16[†]Do you not know that if you present yourselves  n to anyone as obedient slaves, [3] you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17[†]But  o thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the  p standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18and,  q having been set free from sin,  r have become slaves of righteousness. 19[†] s I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For  t just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members  u as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

20[†] v For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 w But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things  x of which you are now ashamed?  y For the end of those things is death. 22[†]But now that you  z have been set free from sin and  a have become slaves of God,  b the fruit you get leads to sanctification and  c its end, eternal life. 23[†] d For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.