Dead to Sin, Alive to God

¹What shall we say then? mAre we to continue in sin that grace may abound? ²By no means! How can nwe who died to sin still live in it? ³Do you not know that all of us owho have been baptized pinto Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴We were qburied therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as rChrist was raised from the dead by sthe glory of the Father, we too might walk in tnewness of life.

⁵For uif we have been united with him in va death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ⁶We know that wour old self1 xwas crucified with him in order that ythe body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. ⁷For zone who has died ahas been set free2 from sin. ⁸Now bif we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. ⁹We know that cChrist, being raised from the dead, will never die again; ddeath no longer has dominion over him. ¹⁰For the death he died he died to sin, eonce for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. ¹¹So you also must consider yourselves fdead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

¹²Let not gsin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. ¹³hDo not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but ipresent yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. ¹⁴For jsin kwill have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

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