Romans 6

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.

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.