Freedom from Sin; Life in God. 1^* What then shall we say? Shall we persist in sin that grace may abound? Of course not!^a 2How can we who died to sin yet live in it?^b 3Or are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?^c 4We were indeed buried with him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live in newness of life.^d

5For if we have grown into union with him through a death like his, we shall also be united with him in the resurrection.^e 6We know that our old self was crucified with him, so that our sinful body might be done away with, that we might no longer be in slavery to sin.^f 7For a dead person has been absolved from sin. 8If, then, we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.^g 9We know that Christ, raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has power over him.^h 10As to his death, he died to sin once and for all; as to his life, he lives for God.ⁱ 11Consequently, you too must think of yourselves as [being] dead to sin and living for God in Christ Jesus.^j