Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

This Does Not Mean That We Should Keep Sinning Because Salvation Is By Grace

6 Therefore, what shall we say? Should we^[a] be continuing in sin in order that grace might increase? ² May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

Don’t You Know That We Died With Christ In Order To Live a New Life With Him?

³ Or do you not know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? ⁴ Therefore we were buried-with Him through baptism into death in order that just as Christ arose from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we might walk in newness of life.

For We Share In His Death To Sin And His Life With God

⁵ For if we have become united-with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection, ⁶ knowing this: that our old person was crucified-with Him in order that the body of sin might be done-away-with^[b], so that we no longer^[c] are-slaves^[d] to sin. ⁷ For the one having died has been declared-righteous from sin. ⁸ And if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live-with Him, ⁹ knowing that Christ, having arisen from the dead, dies no more. Death lords-over Him no longer. ¹⁰ For the death that He died, He died to sin once-for-all. But the life that He is living, He is living to God. ¹¹ So also you, be counting yourselves to be dead to sin but living to God in Christ Jesus.