VI. What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2Far be it! How shall we who died to sin, live any longer therein? 3Know ye not, that all we who were immersed into Jesus Christ were immersed into his death? 4We were buried therefore with him by the immersion into his death; that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life. 5For if we have become united with the likeness of his death, we shall be also with that of his resurrection, 6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, in order that we should no longer be in bondage to sin. 7For he that died has been justified from sin. 8And if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him; 9knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more; death has dominion over him no more. 10For in that he died, he died to sin once; but in that he lives, he lives to God. 11So also reckon ye yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ.
12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof; 13nor yield your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but yield yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness. 14For sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under law, but under grace.
15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law but under grace? Far be it! 16Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 17But thanks be to God, that ye were servants of sin, but obeyed from the heart that form of teaching which was delivered to you[18]; 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 yielded your members servants to uncleanness, and to iniquity unto iniquity; so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto sanctification. 20For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free as to righteousness. 21What fruit therefore had ye then in those 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 everlasting life. 23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life, in Jesus Christ our Lord.
VII. Know ye not, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for so long a time as he lives? 2For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives; but if the husband die, she is loosed from the law of the husband. 3So then if, while the husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, though she be married to another man.
4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, in order that ye should be married to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God. 5For when we were in the flesh, the emotions of sins, which were by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. 6But now we are delivered from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
7What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Far be it! But I had not known sin, except through law; for I had not known coveting, if the law had not said: Thou shalt not covet. 8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting. For without law, sin is dead.
9And I was alive without law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10And the commandment, which was for life, that I found to be for death. 11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13Has then that which is good become death to me? Far be it! But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good, that sin by the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.