Romans 6 (NMV)
1 What then shall we say? Should we continue in sin so that grace may increase?
2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
3 Or do you not know that all of us who were immersed into Christ Jesus were immersed into His death?
4 Therefore we were buried with Him through immersion into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been united with Him in the likeness of His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in the likeness of His resurrection.
6 We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body ruled by sin might be rendered powerless, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin.
7 For the one who has died has been set free from sin.
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.
9 We know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer rules over Him.
10 For the death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.
11 In the same way, consider yourselves to be dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires.
13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of unrighteousness. Instead, offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and offer every part of yourself to Him as an instrument of being made right with God.
14 For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the Old Covenant Law, but under grace.
15 What then? Should we sin because we are not under the Old Covenant Law but under grace? Absolutely not!
16 Do you not know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to being made right with God?
17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted.
18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of being made right with God.
19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you once offered the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing lawlessness, so now offer your bodies as slaves to being made right with God, which results in being made holy.
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from the control of being made right with God.
21 And what benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? The outcome of those things is death.
22 But now, having been set free from sin and having become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to being made holy, and the outcome is eternal life.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.