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Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ
What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?
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By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?
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For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—
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because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
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For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.
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The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
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In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
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Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.
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Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.
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For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.
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Slaves to Righteousness
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!
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Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?
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But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance.
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You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
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When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.
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But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.
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For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death.
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The Law and Sin
What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
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But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.
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Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
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For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.
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Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
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We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
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As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.
