Romans 6

Thomson^{(i) 1} What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that favour may abound? ² No, by no means. With respect to us who have died to sin, how can we any more live therein? ³ Do you not know that as many of us as have been baptized to Christ Jesus, have been baptized to his death? ⁴ We have therefore been buried with him by that baptism to his death, that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life. ⁵ For if we are grafts, we are made so by the similitude of his death, but by that of his resurrection we shall actually be so. ⁶ This we know, that our old man was crucified with him that the body of sin may be stopped from operating, in order that we may no longer be slaves to sin. ⁷ For he who is dead, is delivered from sin. ⁸ Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall live with him, ⁹ as we know that Christ, being raised from the dead, dieth no more. Death hath no more a mastery over him. ¹⁰ For inasmuch as he died for sin, he died once for all; but as he liveth, he liveth for God. ¹¹ So likewise reckon ye yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive for God in Christ Jesus our Lord. ¹² Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, so as by the appetites thereof to serve sin; ¹³ nor deliver up your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but deliver yourselves up to God, as brought to life from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness for God. ¹⁴ For sin is not to have dominion over you, as you are not under the law, but under favour. ¹⁵ What then: shall we sin because we are not under law, but under favour? No, by no means. ¹⁶ Do you not know that to whatsoever you deliver yourselves up as servants at command, you are the slaves of that which you obey, whether it be of sin for death; or of obedience for righteousness. ¹⁷ But thanks be to God, that though you were slaves of sin, yet from the heart you have conformed to the mould of doctrine in which you were cast, ¹⁸ and being freed from sin, have become servants of righteousness. ¹⁹ [I speak in the language of human affairs because of the weakness of your flesh,] for as you yielded up your members to iniquity, as slavish instruments of uncleanness and all manner of iniquity, so now yield up your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification. ²⁰ For when you were servants of sin"when you were at a loose from righteousness, ²¹ what fruit therefore had you then from those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death. ²² But being now set free from sin and become servants of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and in the end, everlasting life. ²³ For die wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is everlasting life by Christ Jesus our Lord.