Romans 6:1-14
What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace
may abound? 2By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living
in it? 3Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into
Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4Therefore we have been
buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised
from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in
newness of life. 5For if we have been united with him in a death like
his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6We
know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin
might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. 7For
whoever has died is freed from sin. 8But if we have died with Christ,
we believe that we will also live with him. 9We know that Christ, being
raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has
dominion over him. 10The death he died, he died to sin, once for all;
but the life he lives, he lives to God. 11So you also must consider
yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12Therefore, do
not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey
their passions. 13No longer present your members to sin as instruments
of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been
brought from death to life, and present your members to God as
instruments of righteousness. 14For sin will have no dominion over
you, since you are not under law but under grace.