Abide in Jesus
1 What shall we say then? Shall
we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2
Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?
3 Or do you not know that as many of
us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
4
Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as
Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father,
even so we also should walk in newness
of life.
5 For if we have been united
together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the
likeness of His resurrection, 6
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of
sin might be done away with, that we
should no longer be slaves of sin. 7
For he who has died has been freed from sin.
8 Now if we died with Christ, we
believe that we shall also live with Him, 9
knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no
longer has dominion over Him. 10 For
the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life
that He lives, He lives to God. 11
Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God
in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in
your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
13 And do not present your members
as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God
as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of
righteousness to God. 14 For sin
shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin because
we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!
16 Do you not know that to whom you
present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey,
whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to
righteousness? 17 But God be thanked
that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that
form of doctrine to which you were delivered.
18 And having been set free from
sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 19
I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as
you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness
leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as
slaves of righteousness for holiness.
20 For when you were slaves of sin,
you were free in regard to righteousness.
21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now
ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22 But now having been set free from
sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the
end, everlasting life. 23 For the
wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in
Christ Jesus our Lord.