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¹ What shall we say then? shall wee continue in sinne: that grace may abound? ² God forbid: how shall wee that are dead to sinne, liue any longer therein? ³ Know ye not, that so many of vs as were baptized into Iesus Christ, were baptized into his death? ⁴ Therefore wee are buryed with him by baptisme into death, that like as Christ was raised vp from the dead by the glorie of the Father: euen so wee also should walke in newnesse of life. ⁵ For if we haue bene planted together in the likenesse of his death: wee shalbe also in the likenesse of his resurrection: ⁶ Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the bodie of sinne might bee destroyed, that hencefoorth we should not serue sinne. ⁷ For he that is dead, is freed from sinne. ⁸ Now if we be dead with Christ, we beleeue that we shal also liue with him: ⁹ Knowing that Christ being raysed from the dead, dieth no more, death hath no more dominion ouer him. ¹⁰ For in that he dyed, he dyed vnto sinne once: but in that hee liueth, hee liueth vnto God. ¹¹ Likewise reckon yee also your selues to be dead indeed vnto sinne: but aliue vnto God, through Iesus Christ our Lord. ¹² Let not sinne reigne therfore in your mortall body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. ¹³ Neither yeeld yee your members as instruments of vnrighteousnes vnto sinne: but yeelde your selues vnto God, as those that are aliue from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousnesse vnto God. ¹⁴ For sinne shall not haue dominion ouer you, for yee are not vnder the Law, but vnder Grace. ¹⁵ What then? shal we sinne, because wee are not vnder the Law, but vnder Grace? God forbid. ¹⁶ Know ye not, that to whom yee yeeld your selues seruants to obey, his seruants ye are to whom ye obey: whether of sinne vnto death, or of obedience vnto righteousnesse? ¹⁷ But God bee thanked, that yee were the seruants of sinne: but ye haue obeyed from the heart that fourme of doctrine, which was deliuered you. ¹⁸ Being then made free from sinne, yee became the seruants of righteousnesse. ¹⁹ I speake after the maner of men, because of the infirmitie of your flesh: for as yee haue yeelded your members seruants to vncleannesse and to iniquitie, vnto iniquitie: euen so now yeelde your members seruants to righteousnesse, vnto holinesse. ²⁰ For when yee were the seruants of sinne ye were free from righteousnesse. ²¹ What fruit had yee then in those things, whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. ²² But now being made free from sinne, and become seruants to God, yee haue your fruit vnto holinesse, and the end euerlasting life. ²³ For the wages of sinne is death: but the gift of God is eternall life, through Iesus Christ our Lord.