Good News Translation GNT
Revised Standard Version RSV
1 What shall we say, then? Should we continue to live in sin so that God's grace will increase?
1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
2 Certainly not! We have died to sin - how then can we go on living in it?
2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
3 For surely you know that when we were baptized into union with Christ Jesus, we were baptized into union with his death.
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4 By our baptism, then, we were buried with him and shared his death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from death by the glorious power of the Father, so also we might live a new life.
4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
5 For since we have become one with him in dying as he did, in the same way we shall be one with him by being raised to life as he was.
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
6 And we know that our old being has been put to death with Christ on his cross, in order that the power of the sinful self might be destroyed, so that we should no longer be the slaves of sin.
6 We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful body might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.
7 For when we die, we are set free from the power of sin.
7 For he who has died is freed from sin.
8 Since we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
8 But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.
9 For we know that Christ has been raised from death and will never die again - death will no longer rule over him.
9 For we know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
10 And so, because he died, sin has no power over him; and now he lives his life in fellowship with God.
10 The death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.
11 In the same way you are to think of yourselves as dead, so far as sin is concerned, but living in fellowship with God through Christ Jesus.
11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Sin must no longer rule in your mortal bodies, so that you obey the desires of your natural self.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.
13 Nor must you surrender any part of yourselves to sin to be used for wicked purposes. Instead, give yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life, and surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes.
13 Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
14 Sin must not be your master; for you do not live under law but under God's grace.
14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
15 What, then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law but under God's grace? By no means!
15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
16 Surely you know that when you surrender yourselves as slaves to obey someone, you are in fact the slaves of the master you obey - either of sin, which results in death, or of obedience, which results in being put right with God.
16 Do you not know that if you yield yourselves to any one 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?
17 But thanks be to God! For though at one time you were slaves to sin, you have obeyed with all your heart the truths found in the teaching you received.
17 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,
18 You were set free from sin and became the slaves of righteousness.
18 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
19 (I use everyday language because of the weakness of your natural selves.) At one time you surrendered yourselves entirely as slaves to impurity and wickedness for wicked purposes. In the same way you must now surrender yourselves entirely as slaves of righteousness for holy purposes.
19 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for sanctification.
20 When you were the slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.
20 When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
21 What did you gain from doing the things that you are now ashamed of? The result of those things is death!
21 But then what return did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death.
22 But now you have been set free from sin and are the slaves of God. Your gain is a life fully dedicated to him, and the result is eternal life.
22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get is sanctification and its end, eternal life.
23 For sin pays its wage - death; but God's free gift is eternal life in union with Christ Jesus our Lord.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.