与基督同死同活
1那么，我们该怎么说呢？我们可以继续犯罪，使恩典显得更丰富吗？ 2绝不可以！我们既然向罪死了，岂可继续活在罪中？ 3难道你们不知道，我们受洗归属基督耶稣是和祂一同死吗？ 4我们借着洗礼和祂一同死了，埋葬了，这样我们的一举一动可以有新生命的样式，正如基督借着父的荣耀从死里复活一样。
5如果我们和基督一同死了，也必和祂一同复活。 6我们知道，我们的旧人已经和祂一同钉在十字架上，使辖制我们身体的罪失去力量，使我们不再做罪的奴隶。 7因为人一旦死了，便脱离了罪。
8如果我们与基督同死，相信也必与祂同活。 9因为我们知道，基督既然从死里复活了，就不会再死，死亡也不能再控制祂。 10祂死，是向罪死，只死一次；祂活，却是向上帝永远活着。 11这样，你们应当看自己是向罪死了，但向上帝则看自己是活在基督耶稣里。
12所以，不要让罪辖制你们必死的身体，使你们顺从身体的私欲； 13也不要将你们的身体献给罪作不义的工具，而是要像一个从死里复活的人将自己奉献给上帝，把身体献给上帝作义的工具。 14罪不能再主宰你们，因为你们已经不在律法之下，而是在恩典之中。
做义的奴仆
15那么，我们在恩典之中，不在律法之下，就可以任意犯罪吗？绝不可以！ 16你们难道不明白吗？你们献身给谁、服从谁，就是谁的奴隶。做罪的奴隶，结局是死亡；做上帝的奴仆，就被称为义人。 17感谢上帝！你们从前虽然做过罪的奴隶，现在却衷心服从了所传给你们的教导， 18从罪中得到释放，成为义的奴仆。
19因为你们有人性的软弱，我就从人的立场向你们解释。以前你们将身体献给肮脏不法的事，任其奴役，助长不法。现在你们要将身体奉献给义，为义效劳，成为圣洁的人。 20你们做罪的奴隶时，不受义的约束， 21做了现在想起来也觉得羞耻的事，得到了什么益处呢？那些事只能导致死亡！ 22但现在你们已从罪中得到释放，做了上帝的奴仆，这样会使你们圣洁，最终得到永生。 23因为罪的代价就是死亡，而上帝借着主基督耶稣赐下的礼物则是永生。
1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 7For he that is dead is freed from sin. 8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 9Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. 10For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. 11Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. 16Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 17But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. 18Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. 19I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. 20For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. 21What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. 22But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. 23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
