JMNT(i)
2 Certainly not (May it not come to be; May it not happen)!
We, the very ones who once died by the Sin (or: died with the Sin; die in deviation; died with reference to missing the target; died to failure; die in error),
how shall we [other MSS: could we]
still (or: yet)
continue living within it, centered in it, or in union with it?
3 Or are you continuing to be ignorant (are you remaining without experiential knowledge; do you continue not knowing)
that as many of we who are immersed (or: were at one point baptized)
into Christ Jesus are immersed (or: were then baptized)
into His death?
4 We, then (or: consequently),
were buried together (entombed together with funeral rites)
in Him (or: by Him; with Him),
through the immersion (baptism)
into the death, to the end that just as (or: in the same manner as)
Christ was roused and raised forth from out of the midst of dead folks THROUGH (through means of)
THE GLORY (the glorious manifestation of splendor which calls forth praise; the notion; the renown; the reputation; the imagination)
of The Father (or: which is the Father),
thus also we can walk around (or: we also should likewise conduct ourselves and order our behavior)
within newness of life (in union with life characterized by being new in kind and quality, and different from that which was former).
5 For since (or: You see, if)
we have been birthed (have become; have come to be)
folks engrafted and produced together (or: planted and made to grow together; brought forth together; congenital)
in, by, to and with the result of the likeness of (or: effect of the similar manner from)
His death, then certainly we shall also continue existing [
in the effects of the likeness]
of The Resurrection (or: which is the resurrection; or: from, and with qualities of, the resurrection),
6 while constantly knowing this by intimate experience, that our old, former humanity is crucified together (or: was simultaneously and jointly impaled and put to death on an execution stake)
with [Him], to the end that the body of the Sin (the body belonging to the failure; the corporal manifestation that pertains to the deviation; the group of people [Adam] who missed the target)
could and would be rendered useless and inoperative (idled-down to be unproductive; made null, inactive and unemployed),
for us to no longer continually be a slave to the Sin (or: perform as a slave in the failure, for the Sin, or by deviating and thus missing the goal),
7 for you see, the One at one point dying (or: the one at some point suffering death)
has been rightwised away from the Sin (or: set in the Way pointed out, away from the Failure; turned in the right direction, away from the deviation and missing of the target; placed into equity and right relationships, away from error; = has been moved away from The Sin, and has been brought into participation in covenant relationship).
8 Now since we died (or: if we die)
together with Christ, we are continuously believing (relying; trusting)
that we shall also continue living together in Him (by Him; for Him; to Him; with Him),
9 having seen and thus knowing and perceiving that Christ, being aroused and raised forth from out of the midst of dead folks, is no longer dying. His death is no longer exercising ownership (or: Death is no longer being lord or exerting mastery pertaining to Him; or: Death, from Him, is no longer functioning as a lord),
10 for what He died (or: You see, [the death] which He died),
He died for the Sin (or: by the Failure; in the deviation; to the Sin; with the Error)
once for all [
time]
(or: at once and only once);
yet what He lives (or: Yet [the life] which He continues to live),
He continues living in God (for God; to God; by God; with God).
11 Thus you folks, also, be logically considering (reckoning, accounting and concluding)
yourselves to exist being dead ones, indeed, by the failure to hit the target (or: in the Sin; to the deviation),
yet ones continuously living by God (in God; for God; to God; with God),
within Christ Jesus, our Owner (or: in union with [the] Anointed Jesus, our Lord and Master).
12 Do not, then, let the Sin to continue reigning (or: Therefore, stop allowing the failure, the mistake, or the deviation from the goal to continue on the throne ruling as king)
within your mortal body, [
leading]
into the continual listening in submissive obedience to its earnest desires (its full rushing of emotions, passions and lusts).
13 Also stop constantly placing your members (or: body parts)
alongside (providing and presenting them) [
as]
tools (or: instruments)
of injustice (disregard for what is right; activities discordant to the Way pointed out);
but rather, you folks at once place yourselves alongside for disposal to God (or: stand yourselves with God, at [His] side; by and in God, present yourselves; set yourselves alongside [each other], for God)
as it were being folks continually alive forth from out of the midst of dead ones, and your members [
as]
tools (instruments)
of fair and equitable dealing in the Way pointed out in and by God (of justice and solidarity, for God; of being turned in the right direction, to God; of rightwised covenant relationships with God),
14 for your sin (your failure; your missing of the target)
will not continue exercising mastery (or: You see, deviation from the goal shall not exert ownership and rule as your lord),
for you folks are not under Law (or: do not exist being subject to [Torah] or custom),
but rather under Grace (or: the Act which produced happiness, which was granted as a favor).
15 What, then? Should we (May we; Can we)
occasionally sin (miss the target; fail),
because we are not under law (subject to [Torah] or custom),
but rather under grace (the act yielding happiness, granting joyous favor)?
Certainly not (May it not come to be or happen)!