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.