61What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?+2God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?+3Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?+4We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.+5For if we have become united with [him] in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of his resurrection;+6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;+7for he that hath died is justified from sin.+8But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;+9knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death no more hath dominion over him.+10For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God.+11Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.+12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:+13neither present your members unto sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.+14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.+
The Wages of Sin
15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.+16Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves [as] servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?+17But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;+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 presented your members [as] servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members [as] servants to righteousness unto sanctification.+20For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.+21What fruit then had ye at that time in the 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 eternal life.+23For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.+
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