Romans 6:1-14

- What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace might

increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus

have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him

through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the

dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of

life. For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death,

certainly we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing

this, that our old self was crucified with Him, that our body of sin might

be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin; for he who

has died is freed from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that

we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the

dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. For the death

that He died, He died to sin, once for all; but the life that He lives, He

lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God

in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you

should obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to

sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those a

live from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For

sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.