﻿Romans.
Chapter 6.
What shall we say, then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may increase? 
By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 
Or do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 
Therefore we were buried with him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 
For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be united with him in the likeness of his resurrection. 
We know this: our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin. 
For the one who has died has been acquitted of sin. 
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 
We know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer rules over him. 
For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God. 
So you too must consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires. 
Do not present the parts of your body to sin as weapons of unrighteousness. Instead, present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and the parts of your body to God as weapons of righteousness. 
For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under law but under grace. 
What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 
Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one you obey, whether of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness? 
But thanks be to God that, though you were slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching to which you were handed over. 
And having been set free from sin, you were made slaves of righteousness. 
I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to lawlessness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. 
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 
What fruit did you have then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 
But now, having been set free from sin and made slaves of God, you have your fruit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life. 
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 
