✧What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? ✧2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? ✧3Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? ✧4Therefore 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. ✧5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of [his] resurrection: ✧6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. ✧7For he that is dead is freed from sin. ✧8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: ✧9Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. ✧10For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. ✧11Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. ✧12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. ✧13Neither 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. ✧14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. ✧15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. ✧16Know 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? ✧17But 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. ✧18Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. ✧19I 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. ✧20For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. ✧21What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things [is] death. ✧22But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. ✧23For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.