6 ¹ What are we to say, then? Shall we persist in sin, so that there may be all the more grace? 6 ² No, no! We died to sin: how can we live in it any longer? 6 ³ Have you forgotten that when we were baptized into union with Christ Jesus we were baptized into his death? 6 ⁴ By baptism we were buried with him, and lay dead, in order that, as Christ was raised from the dead in the splendour of the Father, so also we might set our feet upon the new path of life.

6 ⁵ For if we have become incorporate with him in a death like his, we shall also be one with him in a resurrection like his. 6 ⁶ We know that the man we once were has been crucified with Christ, for the destruction of the sinful self, so that we may no longer be the slaves of sin, 6 ⁷ since a dead man is no longer answerable for his sin. 6 ⁸ But if we thus died with Christ, we believe that we shall also come to life with him. 6 ⁹ We know that Christ, once raised from the dead, is never to die again: he is no longer under the dominion of death. 6 ¹⁰ For in dying as he died, he died to sin, once for all, and in living as he lives, he lives to God. 6 ¹¹ In the same way you must regard yourselves as dead to sin and alive to God, in union with Christ Jesus.

6 ¹² So sin must no longer reign in your mortal body, exacting obedience to the body's desires. 6 ¹³ You must no longer put its several parts at sin's disposal, as implements for doing wrong. No: put yourselves at the disposal of God, as dead men raised to life; yield your bodies to him as implements for doing right; 6 ¹⁴ for sin shall no longer be your master, because you are no longer under law, but under the grace of God.