6 What shall we say, then? shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

² God forbid. For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?

³ Know you not that all we, who are baptized in Christ Jesus, are baptized in his death?

⁴ For we are buried together with him by baptism into death; that as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life.

⁵ For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.

⁶ Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer.

⁷ For he that is dead is justified from sin.

⁸ Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also together with Christ:

⁹ Knowing that Christ rising again from the dead, dieth now no more, death shall no more have dominion over him.

¹⁰ For in that he died to sin, he died once; but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God:

¹¹ So do you also reckon, that you are dead to sin, but alive unto God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹² Let no sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof.

¹³ Neither yield ye your members as instruments of iniquity unto sin; but present yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of justice unto God.

¹⁴ For sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under the law, but under grace.

¹⁵ What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

¹⁶ Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death, or of obedience unto justice.

¹⁷ But thanks be to God, that you were the servants of sin, but have obeyed from the heart, unto that form of doctrine, into which you have been delivered.

¹⁸ Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice.

¹⁹ I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity; so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification.

²⁰ For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice.

²¹ What fruit therefore had you then in those things, of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.

²² But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting.

²³ For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

16 And I commend to you Phebe, our sister, who is in the ministry of the church, that is in Cenchrae:

² That you receive her in the Lord as becometh saints; and that you assist her in whatsoever business she shall have need of you. For she also hath assisted many, and myself also.

³ Salute Prisca and Aquila, my helpers in Christ Jesus,

⁴ (Who have for my life laid down their own necks: to whom not I only give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles,)

⁵ And the church which is in their house. Salute Epenetus, my beloved: who is the firstfruits of Asia in Christ.

⁶ Salute Mary, who hath laboured much among you.

⁷ Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and fellow prisoners: who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

⁸ Salute Ampliatus, most beloved to me in the Lord.

⁹ Salute Urbanus, our helper in Christ Jesus, and Stachys, my beloved.

¹⁰ Salute Apelles, approved in Christ.

¹¹ Salute them that are of Aristobulus' household. Salute Herodian, my kinsman. Salute them that are of Narcissus' household, who are in the Lord.

¹² Salute Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute Persis, the dearly beloved, who hath much laboured in the Lord.

¹³ Salute Rufus, elect in the Lord, and his mother and mine.

¹⁴ Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren that are with them.

¹⁵ Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympias; and all the saints that are with them.

¹⁶ Salute one another with an holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you.

¹⁷ Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark them who make dissensions and offences contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, and avoid them.

¹⁸ For they that are such, serve not Christ our Lord, but their own belly; and by pleasing speeches and good words, seduce the hearts of the innocent.

¹⁹ For your obedience is published in every place. I rejoice therefore in you. But I would have you to be wise in good, and simple in evil.

²⁰ And the God of peace crush Satan under your feet speedily. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

²¹ Timothy, my fellow labourer, saluteth you, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen.

²² I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.

²³ Caius, my host, and the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, saluteth you, and Quartus, a brother.

²⁴ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

²⁵ Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret from eternity,

²⁶ (Which now is made manifest by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the precept of the eternal God, for the obedience of faith,) known among all nations;

²⁷ To God the only wise, through Jesus Christ, to whom be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.