Romans 6:3-17

³Don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

⁴Through baptism we were buried with him in death so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father we too can live a new life.

⁵If we've become one with him in dying like he did, then we'll be raised like him too.

⁶We know that our old self was crucified with him to dispose of the dead body of sin so that we wouldn't be enslaved by sin any longer.

⁷Anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

⁸Since we died with Christ, we have confidence that we will also live with him,

⁹for we know that because Christ has been raised from the dead he won't ever die, because death has no longer any power over him.

¹⁰In dying, he died to sin once and for all, but now he lives, and he lives for God!

¹¹In just the same way you should consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God through Christ Jesus.

¹²Don't let sin have control over your mortal body, don't give in to its temptations,

¹³and don't use any parts of your body as evil tools of sin. Instead dedicate yourselves to God as those who have been brought back from death to life, and use all parts of your body as tools to do something good for God.

¹⁴Sin won't rule over you, because you're not under law but under grace.

¹⁵So then, should we sin because we're not under law, but under grace? Of course not!

¹⁶Don't you realize that if you make yourselves someone's slaves, obeying their orders, then you are slaves to the one you obey? If you are slaves of sin, the result is death; if you obey God, the result is you are made right with him.

¹⁷Thank God that though you once were slaves to sin, you whole-heartedly chose to follow the truth about God that you learned.