^aWhat shall we say then? Are we to ^bcontinue in sin so that grace may increase? 2 ^1aFar from it! How shall we who ^bdied to sin still live in it? 3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been ^abaptized into ^bChrist Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been ^aburied with Him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was ^braised from the dead through the ^cglory of the Father, so we too may walk in ^dnewness of life. 5 For ^aif we have become ¹united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be ²in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our ^aold ¹self was ^bcrucified with Him, in order that our ^cbody of sin might be ²done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; 7 for ^athe one who has died is ¹freed from sin.

8 Now ^aif we have died with Christ, we believe that ^bwe shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been ^araised from the dead, ¹is never to die again; ^bdeath no longer is master over Him. 10 For ¹the death that He died, He died to sin once for all time; but ²the life that He lives, He lives to ³God. 11 So you too, consider yourselves to be ^adead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

12 Therefore sin is not to ^areign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, 13 and do not go on ^apresenting ¹the parts of your body to sin as ²instruments of unrighteousness; but ^bpresent yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and ³your body’s parts as ⁴instruments of righteousness for God. 14 For ^asin shall not ^bbe master over you, for ^cyou are not under ¹the Law but ^dunder grace.

15 What then? ^aAre we to sin because we are not under ¹the Law but under grace? ^2bFar from it! 16 Do you not ^aknow that the one to whom you present yourselves as ^bslaves for obedience, you are slaves of that same one whom you obey, either of ^csin ¹resulting in death, or of obedience ²resulting in righteousness? 17 But ^athanks be to God that ¹though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that ^2bform of teaching to which you were entrusted, 18 and after being ^afreed from sin, you became slaves to righteousness. 19 ^aI am speaking ¹in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just ^bas you presented ²the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, ³resulting in further lawlessness, so now present ⁴your body’s parts as slaves to righteousness, ⁵resulting in sanctification.

20 For ^awhen you were slaves of sin, you were free in relation to righteousness. 21 Therefore what ^1abenefit were you then ²deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is ^bdeath. 22 But now having been ^afreed from sin and ^benslaved to God, you ¹derive your ^2cbenefit, ³resulting in sanctification, and ^dthe outcome, eternal life. 23 For the wages of ^asin is death, but the gracious gift of God is ^beternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.