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Dead to Sin, Alive to God

¹ What shall we say then? ^(a)Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? ² By no means! How can ^(b)we who died to sin still live in it? ³ Do you not know that all of us ^(c)who have been baptized ^(d)into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴ We were ^(e)buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as ^(f)Christ was raised from the dead by ^(g)the glory of the Father, we too might walk in ^(h)newness of life.

⁵ For ⁽ⁱ⁾if we have been united with him in ^(j)a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ⁶ We know that ^(k)our old self^{[a] (l)}was crucified with him in order that ^(m)the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. ⁷ For ⁽ⁿ⁾one who has died ^(o)has been set free^[b] from sin. ⁸ Now ^(p)if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. ⁹ We know that ^(q)Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; ^(r)death no longer has dominion over him. ¹⁰ For the death he died he died to sin, ^(s)once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. ¹¹ So you also must consider yourselves ^(t)dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

¹² Let not ^(u)sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. ^13 (v)Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but ^(w)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 ^(x)sin ^(y)will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Slaves to Righteousness

¹⁵ What then? ^(z)Are we to sin ^(aa)because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! ¹⁶ Do you not know that if you present yourselves ^(ab)to anyone as obedient slaves,^[c] 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 ^(ac)thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the ^(ad)standard of teaching to which you were committed, ¹⁸ and, ^(ae)having been set free from sin, ^(af)have become slaves of righteousness. ^19 (ag)I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For ^(ah)just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members ^(ai)as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

^20 (aj)For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. ^21 (ak)But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things ^(al)of which you are now ashamed? ^(am)For the end of those things is death. ²² But now that you ^(an)have been set free from sin and ^(ao)have become slaves of God, ^(ap)the fruit you get leads to sanctification and ^(aq)its end, eternal life. ^23 (ar)For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.