Living_Oracles(i)
20 Moreover, the law supervened, that the offense might abound; but where sin abounded, favor superabounded-
21 that as sin reigned by death, so, also, favor might reign by justification to eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
6 1 What do we say, then? Shall we continue in sin, that favor may abound?
2 By no means. How shall we, who have died to sin, continue to live in it?
3 Do you not know, that as many as have been immersed into Jesus Christ, have been immersed into his death?
4 We have been buried, then, together with him, by the immersion into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father; so we also shall walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death; we shall then, also, certainly be in the likeness of his resurrection.
6 Knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should not any longer serve sin:
7 for he that has died is released from sin.
8 Moreover, if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.
9 Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies not again; death has no longer dominion over him:
10 for that he has died, he has died for sin once: but that he lives, he lives for God.
11 So reckon yourselves also dead, indeed, to sin; but alive to God, by Jesus Christ.