1What should we say then? Should we keep on sinning so that God’s grace can increase?2Not at all! As far as sin is concerned, we are dead. So how can we keep on sinning?3All of us were baptised into Christ Jesus. Don’t you know that we were baptised into his death?4By being baptised, we were buried with Christ into his death. Christ has been raised from the dead by the Father’s glory. And like Christ we also can live a new life.5By being baptised, we have been joined with him in a death like his. So we will certainly also be joined with him in a resurrection like his.6We know that what we used to be was nailed to the cross with him. That happened so our bodies that were ruled by sin would lose their power. So we are no longer slaves of sin.7That’s because those who have died have been set free from sin.8We died with Christ. So we believe that we will also live with him.9We know that Christ was raised from the dead and will never die again. Death doesn’t control him anymore.10When he died, he died once and for all time. He did this to break the power of sin. Now that he lives, he lives in the power of God.11In the same way, consider yourselves to be dead as far as sin is concerned. Now you believe in Christ Jesus. So consider yourselves to be alive as far as God is concerned.12So don’t let sin rule your body, which is going to die. Don’t obey its evil desires.13Don’t give any part of yourself to serve sin. Don’t let any part of yourself be used to do evil. Instead, give yourselves to God. You have been brought from death to life. So give every part of yourself to God to do what is right.14Sin will no longer control you like a master. That’s because the law does not rule you. God’s grace has set you free.
Slaves to right living
15What should we say then? Should we sin because we are not ruled by the law but by God’s grace? Not at all!16Don’t you know that when you give yourselves to obey someone you become that person’s slave? If you are slaves of sin, then you will die. But if you are slaves who obey God, then you will live a godly life.17You used to be slaves of sin. But thank God that with your whole heart you obeyed the teachings you were given!18You have been set free from sin. You have become slaves to right living.19Because you are human, you find this hard to understand. So I am using an everyday example to help you understand. You used to give yourselves to be slaves to unclean living. You were becoming more and more evil. Now give yourselves to be slaves to right living. Then you will become holy.20Once you were slaves of sin. At that time right living did not control you.21What benefit did you gain from doing the things you are now ashamed of? Those things lead to death!22You have been set free from sin. God has made you his slaves. The benefit you gain leads to holy living. And the end result is eternal life.23When you sin, the pay you get is death. But God gives you the gift of eternal life. That’s because of what Christ Jesus our Lord has done.
English Standard Version
Dead to Sin, Alive to God
1What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?2By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?3Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?4We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.5For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.6We know that our old self* was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.7For one who has died has been set free* from sin.8Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.9We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.10For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.11So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.13Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.14For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Slaves to Righteousness
15What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!16Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves,* you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?17But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,18and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.19I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.20For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.21But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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