1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live in it? 3Or do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Messiah Yeshua were baptized into his death? 4We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that just as Messiah was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. 5For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection; 6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we should no longer be in bondage to sin; 7for he who has died is justified from sin. 8But if we died with Messiah, we believe that we shall also live with him; 9knowing that Messiah being raised from the dead dies no more; death no more has dominion over him. 10For the death that he died, he died to sin once: but the life that he lives, he lives to God. 11Even so you also reckon yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Messiah Yeshua. 12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey its lusts: 13neither 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. 14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under Torah, but under grace. 15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under Torah, but under grace? God forbid. 16Do you not know, that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? 17But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were servants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered; 18and being made free from sin, you became servants of righteousness. 19I speak in the manner of men because of the weakness of your flesh: for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to lawlessness to lawlessness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness to sanctification. 20For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21What 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. 22But now having been made free from sin and having become servants to God, you have your fruit to sanctification, and the end eternal life. 23For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.