Dead to Sin, Alive to God

6 ^(A)What shall we say then? Are we to ^(B)continue in sin so that grace may increase? ^2 (C)May it never be! How shall we who ^(D)died to sin still live in it? ³ Or do you not know that all of us who were ^(E)baptized into ^(F)Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? ⁴ Therefore we were ^(G)buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was ^(H)raised from the dead through the ^(I)glory of the Father, so we too might walk in ^(J)newness of life. ⁵ For ^(K)if we have become ^[a]united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be ^[b]in the likeness of His resurrection, ⁶ knowing this, that our ^(L)old man was ^(M)crucified with Him, in order that our ^(N)body of sin might be ^[c]done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; ⁷ for ^(O)he who has died has been ^[d]justified from sin.

⁸ Now ^(P)if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, ⁹ knowing that Christ, having been ^(Q)raised from the dead, ^[e]is never to die again; ^(R)death no longer is master over Him. ¹⁰ For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all, but the life that He lives, He lives to God. ¹¹ Even so consider yourselves to be ^(S)dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

¹² Therefore do not let sin ^(T)reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, ¹³ and do not go on ^(U)presenting your members to sin as ^[f]instruments of unrighteousness, but ^(V)present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as ^[g]instruments of righteousness to God. ¹⁴ For ^(W)sin shall not ^(X)be master over you, for ^(Y)you are not under law but ^(Z)under grace.

Slaves of Righteousness

¹⁵ What then? ^(AA)Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? ^(AB)May it never be! ¹⁶ Do you not ^(AC)know that when you go on presenting yourselves to someone as ^(AD)slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of ^(AE)sin ^[h]leading to death, or of obedience ^[i]leading to righteousness? ¹⁷ But ^(AF)thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that ^(AG)pattern of teaching to which you were ^(AH)given over, ¹⁸ and having been ^(AI)freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. ^19 (AJ)I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just ^(AK)as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, ^[j]leading to further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, ^[k]leading to sanctification.

²⁰ For ^(AL)when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. ²¹ Therefore what ^[l](AM)benefit were you then having ^[m]from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is ^(AN)death. ²² But now having been ^(AO)freed from sin and ^(AP)enslaved to God, you have your ^[n](AQ)benefit, ^[o]leading to sanctification, and ^(AR)the end, eternal life. ²³ For the wages of ^(AS)sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is ^(AT)eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.