Romans - 6

1 - What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

2 - God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

3 - Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus - Christ - were baptized into his death?

4 - Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ - was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

5 - For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

6 - Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

7 - For he that is dead is freed from sin.

8 - Now if we be 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 hath no more dominion over him.

10 - For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

11 - Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus - Christ - our Lord.

12 - Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

13 - Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

14 - For sin shall not have 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 - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

17 - But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

18 - Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

19 - I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

20 - For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

21 - What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

22 - But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

23 - For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus - Christ - our Lord.