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for if by the offence of the one the death did reign through the one, much more those, who the abundance of the grace and of the free gift of the righteousness are receiving, in life shall reign through the one -- Jesus Christ.

for as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners: so also through the obedience of the one, shall the many be constituted righteous.

For, if we have become planted together to the likeness of his death, [so] also we shall be of the rising again;

this knowing, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;

for he who hath died hath been set free from the sin.

for in that he died, to the sin he died once, and in that he liveth, he liveth to God;

for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace.

have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness -- to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness -- to sanctification,

for when ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness,

what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those [is] death.

for the wages of the sin [is] death, and the gift of God [is] life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Are ye ignorant, brethren -- for to those knowing law I speak -- that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth?

for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that [are] through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;

What, then, shall we say? the law [is] sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

`Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness -- for apart from law sin is dead.

and the command that [is] for life, this was found by me for death;

for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay [me];