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¹ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?² God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?³ Or are you ignorant that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?⁴ We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.⁵ For if we have become united with [him] in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of his resurrection;⁶ knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be done away, it no longer to serve us as slaves to sin;⁷ for he that has died is justified from sin.⁸ But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;⁹ knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death no more has dominion over him.¹⁰ For the death that he died, he died to sin once: but the life that he lives, he lives to God.¹¹ Even so reckon also yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.¹² Don't let sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey the desires thereof:¹³ neither present your members to sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness to God.¹⁴ For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under law, but under grace.¹⁵ What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.¹⁶ Do you not know, that to whom you present yourselves [as] slaves to obedience, his slaves you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?¹⁷ But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered;¹⁸ and being made free from sin, you were made a slave to righteousness.¹⁹ I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as you presented your members [as] slaves to impurity and to iniquity to iniquity, even so now present your members [as] slaves to righteousness to sanctification.²⁰ For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard of righteousness.²¹ What fruit then did you have at that time in the things whereof you are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.²² But now being made free from sin and being made slaves to God, you have your fruit to sanctification, and the end eternal life.²³ For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.