Romans 6

Haweis^{(i) 1} THAT then shall we say? Shall we abide in sin, that grace may abound? ² God forbid. We who are dead to sin, how shall we still live therein? ³ Do ye not know, that as many as have been baptised into Christ Jesus have been baptised into his death? ⁴ We have been buried therefore with him by baptism into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in newness of life. ⁵ For if we have been planted with him in the likeness of his death, so shall we be also of his resurrection: ⁶ knowing this, that our old man hath been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be abolished, that we should no longer be slaves to sin. ⁷ For he that is dead is discharged from sin. ⁸ But if we have been dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: ⁹ knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death over him hath no more dominion. ¹⁰ For in that he died, for sin he died once: but in that he liveth, he liveth to God. ¹¹ So also do ye account yourselves dead indeed to sin, but living unto God in Christ Jesus our Lord. ¹² Let not therefore sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the passions thereof. ¹³ Neither present your members as weapons of unrighteousness for sin: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness for God. ¹⁴ For sin shall not hold dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. ¹⁵ What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. ¹⁶ Do ye not know, that to whomsoever ye present yourselves servants to obey, ye are his servants to whom ye obey; if of sin unto death, or of obedience, unto righteousness? ¹⁷ But thanks be to God, that though ye were the servants of sin, ye have obeyed from the heart the model of doctrine into which ye were delivered. ¹⁸ Emancipated then from sin, ye became servants to righteousness. ¹⁹ I speak humanly, because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have presented your members servants to impurity and iniquity for iniquity; so now present your members servants to righteousness for holiness. ²⁰ For when ye were the slaves of sin, ye were free from righteousness. ²¹ What fruit therefore had ye then in those things at which ye are now confounded? for the end of those things is death. ²² But now being set at liberty from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and at the end life eternal. ²³ For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is life eternal in Jesus Christ our Lord.