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Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>For whoever has died is freed from sin. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>The death he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>No longer present your members to sin as instruments<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-32339a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-32339b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> of righteousness. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Slaves of Righteousness</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-32345c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>So what advantage did you then get from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Romans 6:13">Romans 6:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>weapons</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Romans 6:13">Romans 6:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>weapons</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Romans 6:19">Romans 6:19</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>the weakness of your flesh</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. 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