Romans 6
1WHAT then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
2Far be it! How shall we who died to sin, live any longer therein?
3Know ye not, that all we who were immersed into Jesus Christ were immersed into his death?
4We were buried therefore with him by the immersion into his death; that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.
5For if we have become united with the likeness of his death, we shall be also with that of his resurrection,
6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, in order that we should no longer be in bondage to sin.
7For he that died has been justified from sin.
8And if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;
9knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more; death has dominion over him no more.
10For in that he died, he died to sin once; but in that he lives, he lives to God.
11So also reckon ye yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ.
12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof;
13nor yield your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but yield yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
14For sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under law, but under grace.
15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law but under grace? Far be it!
16Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17But thanks be to God, that ye were servants of sin, but obeyed from the heart that form of teaching which was delivered to you[6:18];
18and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.
19I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as ye yielded your members servants to uncleanness, and to iniquity unto iniquity; so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto sanctification.
20For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free as to righteousness.
21What fruit therefore had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22But now, being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end everlasting life.
23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life, in Jesus Christ our Lord.