Romans 6

¹What should we say then? Should we continue in the sphere of sin so that grace may overflow? ²Absolutely not! We are people who died to sin; how can we still live in it? ³Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴We were buried with him, therefore, through this baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too might walk in a new quality of life.

⁵For if we have become grown together with him in a likeness of his death, we will certainly also be grown together with him in his resurrection. ⁶We know this: our old humanity was crucified with him so that the body dominated by sin might be rendered powerless, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. ⁷For the one who has died has been acquitted from the claim of sin. ⁸But if we died with Christ, we trust that we will also live with him. ⁹We know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, no longer dies; death no longer acts as his master. ¹⁰For the death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. ¹¹In the same way, you also must calculate yourselves to be dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

¹²Therefore, do not let sin reign as king in your mortal body, forcing you to obey its desires. ¹³Do not offer your body parts to sin as weapons of injustice; instead, offer yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and offer your body parts to God as weapons of justice. ¹⁴For sin will not be your master, since you are not under law but under grace.

¹⁵What then? Should we commit a sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not! ¹⁶Do you not know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey—whether to sin, leading to death, or to obedience, leading to justice? ¹⁷But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that mold of teaching to which you were handed over. ¹⁸Having been liberated from sin, you were enslaved to justice.

¹⁹I am speaking in human terms because of your natural human frailty. For just as you offered your body parts as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness—leading to more lawlessness—so now offer your body parts as slaves to justice, leading to consecration. ²⁰For when you were slaves of sin, you were "free" in relation to justice. ²¹So what fruit did you have then from the things you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death. ²²But now, having been liberated from sin and having been enslaved to God, you have your fruit leading to consecration, and the end result is eternal life. ²³For the rations paid out by sin is death, but the charisma of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.