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^(a)What shall we say then? Are we to ^(b)continue in sin so that grace may increase?

^(c)May it never be! How shall we who ^(d)died to sin still live in it?

Or do you not know that all of us who have been ^(e)baptized into ^(f)Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?

Therefore we have been ^(g)buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was ^(h)raised from the dead through the ⁽ⁱ⁾glory of the Father, so we too might walk in ^(j)newness of life.

For ^(k)if we have become ^[a]united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be ^[b]in the likeness of His resurrection,

knowing this, that our ^(l)old ^[c]self was ^(m)crucified with Him, in order that our ⁽ⁿ⁾body of sin might be ^[d]done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;

for ^(o)he who has died is ^[e]freed from sin.

Now ^(p)if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

knowing that Christ, having been ^(q)raised from the dead, ^[f]is never to die again; ^(r)death no longer is master over Him.

For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

Even so consider yourselves to be ^(s)dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Therefore do not let sin ^(t)reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,

and do not go on ^(u)presenting ^[g]the members of your body to sin as ^[h]instruments of unrighteousness; but ^(v)present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as ^[i]instruments of righteousness to God.

For ^(w)sin shall not ^(x)be master over you, for ^(y)you are not under law but ^(z)under grace.

What then? ^(aa)Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? ^(ab)May it never be!

Do you not ^(ac)know that when you present yourselves to someone as ^(ad)slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of ^(ae)sin ^[j]resulting in death, or of obedience ^[k]resulting in righteousness?

But ^(af)thanks be to God that ^[l]though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that ^(ag)form of teaching to which you were committed,

and having been ^(ah)freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

^(ai)I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just ^(aj)as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, ^[m]resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, ^[n]resulting in sanctification.

For ^(ak)when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

Therefore what ^[o](al)benefit were you then ^[p]deriving ^[q]from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is ^(am)death.

But now having been ^(an)freed from sin and ^(ao)enslaved to God, you ^[r]derive your ^[s](ap)benefit, ^[t]resulting in sanctification, and ^(aq)the outcome, eternal life.

For the wages of ^(ar)sin is death, but the free gift of God is ^(as)eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.