1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live in it? 3Or are you{+} ignorant that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. 5For if we have become united with [him] in the likeness of his death, we will be also [in the likeness] of his resurrection; 6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be done away, it no longer to serve us as slaves to sin; 7for he who has died is justified from sin. 8But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him; 9knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death no more has dominion over him. 10For the death that he died, he died to sin once: but the life that he lives, he lives to God. 11Even so reckon{+} also yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12Don't let sin therefore reign in your{+} mortal body, that you{+} should obey its desires: 13neither present your{+} members to sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your{+} members [as] instruments of righteousness to God. 14For sin will not have dominion over you{+}: for you{+} are not under law, but under grace. 15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid. 16Don't you{+} know, that to whom you{+} present yourselves [as] slaves to obedience, his slaves you{+} are whom you{+} obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? 17But thanks be to God, that, whereas you{+} were slaves of sin, you{+} became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you{+} were delivered; 18and being made free from sin, you{+} were made a slave to righteousness. 19I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your{+} flesh: for as you{+} presented your{+} members [as] slaves to impurity and to iniquity to iniquity, even so now present your{+} members [as] slaves to righteousness to sanctification. 20For when you{+} were slaves of sin, you{+} were free in regard of righteousness. 21What fruit then did you{+} have at that time in the things of which you{+} are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22But now being made free from sin and being made slaves to God, you{+} have your{+} fruit to sanctification, and the end eternal life. 23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.