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¹ Do we then conclude thus, let us continue in sin, that the divine favour may be more fully display'd? ² God forbid, that we who have died to sin should live any longer therein. ³ don't you know that when we were all baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, we were plunged into a state figurative of his death. ⁴ therefore we are buried with him by being plunged into a sort of death: that as Christ was raised up from the dead into a state of glory with the father, even so we also should proceed to a new state of life. ⁵ for if we resembled him with regard to death, certainly we shall likewise do so with regard to his resurrection: ⁶ considering this, that our vicious passions were crucified with him, that the body of sin being destroyed, we might not any longer be vassals to sin. ⁷ for by its being dead, we are set free from sin. ⁸ since then we died with Christ, we are persuaded that we shall also live with him: ⁹ knowing that Christ being raised from the dead, is to die no more; death hath no more dominion over him. ¹⁰ for as to his death, he died upon the account of sin once for all; but as to his being alive, he lives to the glory of God for ever. ¹¹ in like manner consider your selves as dead to sin; but alive to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. ¹² Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, by making you slaves to the lusts thereof. ¹³ neither yield your members as instruments to iniquity: but yield yourselves unto God, as being alive after having been dead; and your members as instruments of righteousness. ¹⁴ for then sin shall have no dominion over you: because you are not under the legal, but under the gospel dispensation. ¹⁵ What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under the gospel? ¹⁶ by no means. know ye not, that to whom ye subject your selves vassals at command, his vassals you are whom you thus obey; the vassals either of sin to destruction, or of obedience to justification? ¹⁷ but God be thanked, that you, who were the vassals of sin, have sincerely obeyed in the manner the gospel prescribed. ¹⁸ being then set free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. ¹⁹ (I allude to civil affairs, because of your unacquaintedness with spiritual matters:) as then you made your natural faculties subservient to impurity, and all manner of vice; make them now subservient to virtue and holiness. ²⁰ for when ye were the vassals of sin, ye were not in the service of virtue. ²¹ what benefit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? since they terminated all in death. ²² but now being set free from sin, and actually in the service of God, the present advantage you reap is holiness, and the future everlasting life. ²³ for the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.