1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection; 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, 9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him! 10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God. 11 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

12 Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.

15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! 16 Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered. 18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification. 20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 这样， 我们可以说什么呢？我们可以常在罪中， 叫恩典增多吗？

2 绝对不可！ 我们向罪死了的人， 怎么可以仍然活在罪中呢？

3 难道你们不晓得我们这受洗归入基督耶稣的人， 是受洗归入他的死吗？

4 所以我们借着洗礼归入死， 与他同葬， 为的是要我们过新生命的生活， 像基督借着父的荣耀从死人中复活一样。

5 我们若在他死的样式上与他联合， 也要在他复活的样式上与他联合。

6 我们知道， 我们的旧人已经与基督同钉十字架， 使罪身丧失机能， 使我们不再作罪的奴仆，

7 因为死了的人已经脱离罪了。

8 我们既然与基督同死， 就信也必与他同活。

9 我们知道， 基督既然从死人中复活， 就不再死， 死也不再辖制他了。

10 他死， 是向罪死了， 只有这一次； 他活， 是向 神活着。

11 你们也应当这样， 向罪算自己是死的， 在基督耶稣里， 向 神却是活的。

12 所以， 不要容罪在你们必死的肉身上掌权， 使你们顺从肉身的私欲，

13 也不要把你们的肢体献给罪， 作不义的用具； 倒要像出死得生的人， 把自己献给 神， 并且把你们的肢体献给 神作义的用具。

14 罪必不能辖制你们， 因为你们不是在律法之下， 而是在恩典之下。

15 那却怎么样呢？我们不在律法之下， 而在恩典之下， 就可以犯罪吗？绝对不可！

16 难道你们不知道你们自愿作奴仆去顺从人， 顺从谁就作谁的奴仆， 或作罪的奴仆以致于死， 或作顺从的奴仆以致于义吗？

17 感谢 神， 你们虽然作过罪的奴仆， 现在却从心里顺从了传授给你们的教义的规范。

18 你们既然从罪里得了释放， 就作了义的奴仆。

19 因为你们肉体的弱点， 我就按一般人的话来说， 你们从前怎样把你们的肢体献给不洁和不法作奴仆， 以致于不法， 现在也要照样把你们的肢体献给义作奴仆， 以致于成圣。

20 你们作罪的奴仆的时候， 就不受义的约束。

21 那么， 你们在现今以为羞耻的事上， 当时得了什么呢？那些事的结局就是死。

22 现在你们既然从罪里得了释放， 作了 神的奴仆， 就有成圣的果子， 那结局就是永生。

23 因为罪的工价就是死， 但 神的恩赏， 在我们的主基督耶稣里， 却是永生。