6What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?G5101G2046G3767G1961G266G2443G5485G41212By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?G3361G1096G4459G3748G599G266G2198G2089G1722G8463Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?G2228G50G3754G3745G907G1519G2424G5547G907G1519G846G22884We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.G3767G4916G846G1223G908G1519G2288G2443G5618G5547G1453G1537G3498G1223G1391G3962G3779G2249G2532G4043G1722G2538G22225If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection.G1063G1487G1096G4854G3667G846G2288G2071G235G2532G3866For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—G1097G5124G3754G2257G3820G444G4957G2443G4983G266G2673G3371G2248G1398G3371G1398G2667because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.G1063G599G1344G575G2668Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.G1161G1487G599G4862G5547G4100G3754G4800G2532G4800G8469For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.G1492G3754G5547G1453G1537G3498G599G3765G2288G2961G3765G2961G84610The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.G3739G1063G599G599G266G2178G1161G3739G2198G2198G231611In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.G3779G3049G5210G2532G1438G1511G3498G3303G266G1161G2198G2316G1722G2424G5547G2257G296212Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.G936G3361G266G3767G936G1722G5216G2349G4983G1519G5219G846G1722G1939G84613Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness.G3366G3936G5216G3196G3696G93G266G235G3936G1438G2316G5613G2198G1537G3498G2532G5216G3196G3696G1343G231614For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.G1063G266G2961G3756G2961G5216G1063G2075G3756G5259G3551G235G5259G5485
Slaves to Righteousness
15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!G5101G3767G264G3754G2070G3756G5259G3551G235G5259G5485G3361G109616Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?G1492G3756G3754G3739G3936G1438G1401G1519G5218G1401G2075G3739G5219G2273G266G1519G2288G2228G5218G1519G134317But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted.G1161G2316G5485G3754G2258G1401G266G1161G5219G1537G2588G5179G1322G1519G3739G386018You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.G1659G1161G1659G575G266G1402G134319I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.G3004G442G1223G769G5216G4561G1063G5618G3936G5216G3196G1401G167G2532G458G1519G458G3779G3568G3936G5216G3196G1401G1343G1519G3820When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.G1063G3753G2258G1401G266G2258G1658G134321What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!G5101G3767G2590G2192G5119G1909G3739G1870G3568G1870G1063G5056G1565G228822But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.G1161G3570G1659G575G266G1161G1402G2316G2192G5216G2590G1519G38G1161G5056G166G222223For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.G1063G3800G266G2288G1161G5486G2316G166G2222G1722G2424G5547G2257G2962