Romans Chapter 6
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may abound?
2 That cannot be⁺. How shall we who are dead to sin, live any longer in it?
3 Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?
4 Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death so that, as Christ was raised up 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 planted together in the likeness of His death, then we will also be in the likeness of His resurrection.
6 Know this: That our old self⁺ is crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, so that from now on we would not serve sin.
7 For those who are dead are freed from sin.
8 Now if we are dead with Christ, then we believe that we will also live with Him.
9 We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no longer⁺. Death no longer⁺ has dominion over Him.
10 For in that He died, He died to sin once. But in that He lives, He lives to God.
11 Likewise count⁺ yourselves to be dead indeed to sin but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey it in its lusts.
13 Do not submit⁺ your members to be instruments of unrighteousness to sin. But submit⁺ yourselves to God, as people who are alive from the dead. Make your members instruments of righteousness to God.
14 For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? That cannot be⁺.
16 Do you not know that to whomever you submit⁺ yourselves as servants to obey, you are indeed servants of whomever you obey: Whether sin unto death or obedience unto righteousness?
17 But thanks be to God that even though you were the servants of sin, you have obeyed from the heart the example⁺ of doctrine that was delivered to you.
18 Therefore, being set free from sin, you became servants of righteousness.
19 I speak after the manner of men because of the weakness⁺ of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members as servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now submit⁺ your members to be servants to righteousness unto holiness.
20 For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
21 What fruit did you have then in those things about which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22 But now, being made free from sin and having become servants to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end: eternal⁺ life.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Proverbs 11:19